On 30 May 2010 20:01, Antoni Grzymala <ant...@chopin.edu.pl> wrote: > 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?
I was referring to mixing KOI8 which supports mixing latin and cyrillic glyphs already as is. If you want to mix cyrillic, greek and chinese I agree, you got a problem there. But I doubt this would be such a usual use case, certainly not for a geek using openbsd for fun I'd say ;) Otherwise install p9p or Linux or FreeBSD... --Anselm
