On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/04/2010 20:11:15, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: >> Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? >> Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, >> dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? >> for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode >> pathnames (wide characters). [...] > The tricky bit is getting the user-interface to interpret those names as > Unicode (or whatever) and show you the appropriate sequence of glyphs in > whatever character set you prefer. In general you need to set various > locale related environment variables plus you may need to run > specialized terminal emulator software to enable means for entering > non-roman characters via your keyboard. >
I find this thread interesting because I had similar problems in FBSD with UTF-8. The virtual terminals will not support multi-byte characters nor several other things. Nevertheless, if you have Gnome (and I guess KDE as well) you can configure _that_ environment quite easily to support UTF-8. Just add: gdm_lang="en_US.UTF-8" or whatever other locale you want in your rc.conf and that's it. You can also customize this on a per-user basis. I haven't got the languages list to work yet in GDM, but all I needed was UTF-8 anyway. If anyone knows how to get multi-locales to work with GDM it would be awesome. I searched several threads but noone seemed to have an aswer. Anyway, hope this helps. Alejandro Imass > See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > - -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > Kent, CT11 9PW > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAku+OxUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwN0wCeO9QlEcsHkjpyaTPEeXRj+luT > F18An0n1tqLRE6nD2Mrw/XKOGoWfYoxh > =1s6j > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
