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Date:      Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:08:27 +0300
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UTF-8 collations on FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20071216180827.GA79300@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <fk3ldl$ght$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <fk3ldl$ght$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 05:57:25PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> What is the status of multibyte (in particular, I'm only interested in
> UTF-8) support in FreeBSD? I remember there have been many reports that
> it simply "doesn't work" but they have been posted before RELENG_7.
>=20
> If the multibyte support does work, I'm interested in creating the
> necessary tables for my language and I'd like to know what is the best
> place to start researching how it's done?
>=20

Multibyte support works, excepting to collation which defaults to=20
single byte order.
AFAIK, no one is taking this task yet.
Speaking particulary about UTF-8, it will be better to have single sorting=
=20
table for whole UTF-8 rather then for particular language.
See what other systems (f.e. Linux) have done.

--=20
http://ache.pp.ru/

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