Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:13:00 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Kotecha, Grishma" <grishma.kotecha@intel.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unicode support in Free bsd. Message-ID: <85A565CC-DB7F-421B-831B-9E1B48967173@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <E559D19195578B4E9ECB3919FF99F97929A1864C83@orsmsx509.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <E559D19195578B4E9ECB3919FF99F97929A1864C83@orsmsx509.amr.corp.intel.com>
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On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: > Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? UFS/UFS2 supports 8-bit chars (except NULL), so UTF8 representation for Unicode filenames ought to work OK. > Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? Yes. > for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode pathnames (wide characters). You can't use USC-2 / UTF-16 widechars. Regards, -- -Chuck
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