Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 01:59:22 +0300 From: Yury Michurin <yury.michurin@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unicode support in Free bsd. Message-ID: <v2k692c9a9f1004081559w5cc80cc4ub62997ef36d442af@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <h2na14066a01004081337u8c00ff3fia8098e4b3235e031@mail.gmail.com> References: <E559D19195578B4E9ECB3919FF99F97929A1864C83@orsmsx509.amr.corp.intel.com> <4BBE3B16.1020300@infracaninophile.co.uk> <h2na14066a01004081337u8c00ff3fia8098e4b3235e031@mail.gmail.com>
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UTF8 works grate here in irssi and tcsh over putty, same goes for filenames. Had no problem with it what so ever, just needed to set in .cshrc: setenv LC_CTYPE he_IL.UTF-8 never checked any X applications though. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Seaman > <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 08/04/2010 20:11:15, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: > >> Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? > >> 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? > >> for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode > pathnames (wide characters). > [...] > > The tricky bit is getting the user-interface to interpret those names as > > Unicode (or whatever) and show you the appropriate sequence of glyphs in > > whatever character set you prefer. In general you need to set various > > locale related environment variables plus you may need to run > > specialized terminal emulator software to enable means for entering > > non-roman characters via your keyboard. > > > > I find this thread interesting because I had similar problems in FBSD > with UTF-8. The virtual terminals will not support multi-byte > characters nor several other things. Nevertheless, if you have Gnome > (and I guess KDE as well) you can configure _that_ environment quite > easily to support UTF-8. > > Just add: > > gdm_lang="en_US.UTF-8" > > or whatever other locale you want in your rc.conf and that's it. You > can also customize this on a per-user basis. I haven't got the > languages list to work yet in GDM, but all I needed was UTF-8 anyway. > If anyone knows how to get multi-locales to work with GDM it would be > awesome. I searched several threads but noone seemed to have an aswer. > > Anyway, hope this helps. > > Alejandro Imass > > > > > > See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matthew > > > > - -- > > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > > Flat 3 > > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > > Kent, CT11 9PW > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAku+OxUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwN0wCeO9QlEcsHkjpyaTPEeXRj+luT > > F18An0n1tqLRE6nD2Mrw/XKOGoWfYoxh > > =1s6j > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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