Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:33:57 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Charactersets and encoding: switching from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 Message-ID: <44193105.5070204@locolomo.org>
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Hi: I have just installed a virgin system, FBSD 6.1-BETA3 and upgraded to the head of RELENG_6. Since it is virgin, I thought this may be the time to make the switch to UTF-8. Googling, it appears that UTF-8 was introduced in the base in 2004, but I find no keymaps for UTF-8 console, no fonts, no console definition in /etc/termcap. Is FreeBSD ready for UTF-8? Secondly, if I successfully switch, how do I best convert files to UTF-8? One think is text files, I assume this should be simple, but then there are all the other files such as music and images with text embedded. I have understood that UTF-8 is compatible with ASCII but not with the ISO character sets used in Europe. Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9
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