On 21/04/2012 16:10, Lars Eighner wrote:
UTF-8 is a waste of storage for most people and is incompatiple with text-mode tools: it's simple another bid to make it impossible to run without a GUI.
UTF-8 is variable with, ascii characters are stored as single bytes (not sure about iso-8859-1) while other characters are stored as two byte chars.
If your text tools cannot display certain or all UTF-8 characters it is for one of the following reasons: it is either because the application does not support UTF-8, the display table is missing some characters, or the limited display capabilities of terminal/console mode and the complexity of that particular glyph.
Neither of the first two cases are an agument against UTF-8, it's a it's an implementation issue, send a bug report or feature request to the developer.
In the last case, I hope you're not saying that we should limit the fredom of expression to what can be expressed in console mode? :P
Cheers, Erik -- M: +34 666 334 818 T: +34 915 211 157 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
