Anselm R Garbe dixit (2010-05-30, 19:29): > On 30 May 2010 00:58, Ilya Ilembitov <ilembi...@ya.ru> wrote: > >> well I'm on openbsd. ifconfig is used for everything. > > > > Well, that changes pretty much everything. OpenBSD's ifconfig is probably a > > unique thing among other BSDs (AFAIK) and is nothing like Linux's ifconfig. > > And it's much simpler to use than iwconfig+wpa_supplicant in Linux. > > However, there are some types of encryption OpenBSD can't handle yet > > (although they are not as widespread as WPA/WPA2+TKIP/PSK). > > > > Honestly, because of things like that I would gladly switch to OpenBSD > > (since it supports all of my laptop's hardware and has all the software I > > need). But the fact that currently it doesn't have UTF-8 is really stopping > > me from doing so. > > OpenBSD has excellent support of the 7bit ascii subset of UTF-8. What > else would you *really* need? > > For my German conversations I'm in favor to rewrite German umlauts > like so: ae/Ae oe/Oe ue/Ue and sz and be still UTF8 compliant, > regardless the platform in use. > > I understand that for cyrillic this would be a problem though. > Nevertheless you could live with KOI8 and use icu's uconv for > converting that stuff to UTF8 if you need to interchange with UTF8 > world.
And, скажы меня, what if I need to mix cyryllic, some unusual character or two like »λ«, call upon Janáček's surname, mention a band called Sigur Rós, their track „Suð Í Eyrum” and such? Not seeing further than the tip of one's nose and *bending reality* to the limitations of some dinosaur era string processing crap library is so pathetic... -- [a]
