Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:18:44 +0200 From: Richard =?utf-8?B?xIxlcGFz?= <rch@richard.eu.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and UTF-8 Message-ID: <20020603081844.GC24379@richard.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020603033909.50762524.jylefort@brutele.be> References: <20020603033909.50762524.jylefort@brutele.be>
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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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