On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:49:16 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <kamik...@bsdforen.de> wrote:
> On 12/03/2010 19:23, 葉佳威 Jiawei Ye wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Elmar Stellnberger > > <elms...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Isn`t it time for FreeBSD to fully support Unicode/UTF-8 by now? > >> It is considered to be standard charset by now. XML uses it by > >> default. If you are working with texts in different languages > >> there is no alternative to UTF-8. > >> If you chat with a Linux machine you can easily run into charset > >> troubles if you are > >> still using the old iso-8859-1. > >> > >> By now it is no problem to activate UTF-8 for your console. > >> However a comprehensive Unicode support would require much more: > >> i.e. configuring all user packages like KDE for Unicode support and > >> asserting that also file names (f.i. from ext2 partitions) are > >> interpreted correctly. > > Do you have a concrete example of how FreeBSD fails to support > > UTF-8? I have been setting my LANG to zh_TW.UTF-8 for years without > > problem with modern software. As this is the ports list, I guess > > you have some issues with the software in the ports collection? > > I second this. I've been using en_GB.UTF-8 since 5.3. Even the file > system can deal with UTF-8 encoded file names. I tried to create > files with Arabian, Chinese, Russian and other characters. > It all worked. > I think he is referring to the syscons. Syscons lacks UTF supports, though some work is being done: http://wiki.freebsd.org/SysconsUnicodeProject _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
