fresh software for freebsd - build service

2010-01-18 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
The amount of available software for FreeBSD could largely be improved by the availablility of a Build Service. In this regard I have opened up a request to provide a FreeBSD target for the openSUSE Build Service. It allows users to compile any software found on the internet in a clean development

Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD

2010-03-11 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
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 i

Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD

2010-03-12 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
I am looking forward to engage in FreeBSD by implementing ext3-support and a suspend to disk facility. If there would be any interest I also ported my checkroot facility (http://www.elstel.com/checkroot/). However all these little configuration issues like UTF-8 support are out of the scope wha