Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:13:17 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Encoding in 7-CURRENT (next 7.0). Message-ID: <fcraq0$lm0$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <e8b5dfd50709190022t2a0ac802tde2392ef6361097f@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] TooMany Secrets wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to know if the next release (7-RELENG), will come with > the system into utf-8 encoding. > I know that I can put my home, apps, etc, into UTF-8 without problems, > but if I try this with the system, it could be more "dangerous". I don't quite get what you mean by "system into utf-8 encoding". You can have UTF-8 filenames in UFS (and AFAIK almost all other file systems, with exception of msdosfs), and there will be no corruption. Problems you will almost certainly encounter are: - bogus / wrong sorting (FreeBSD's locale data for utf-8 is very lacking) - the console (text-mode) doesn't support utf-8 so you'll see "garbage" on it - problems with Samba (more) and NFS (less, if the destination system is configured to interpret file names as utf-8). [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG8S59ldnAQVacBcgRAhFNAKCRpY1kCQ6O7zGqh6sTMcOy8sTawQCeJ89H 0pkUgktg2aVKtxH0cOhqoJk= =64Y8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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