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From: Richard =?utf-8?B?xIxlcGFz?= <rch@richard.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and UTF-8
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On Mon Jun  3 03:39:09 2002 +0200 Jean-Yves Lefort wrote:

>Hi all,

        Hi,

>
>What is the current status of UTF-8 support in FreeBSD?

        Bad.

>
>Some programs need to read the LANG and LC_* environment variables to
>switch to UTF-8; if I use 'export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 && program', I get:
>'Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale.'

        You can generate utf2 (it is UTF-8) locale on your own using mklocale(1) and grep.  setlocale() will not fail and gettext messages will be converted to utf-8 if you install recent version of gettext and tweak some config files.  Little more than that.

>
>Is that locale supported in -CURRENT?

        As far as I know no, but I don't have current myself.
>
>Can I use UTF-8 encoding at the FreeBSD console?

        No.

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