Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 00:34:52 +0200 (CEST) From: "Michael Nottebrock" <lofi@freebsd.org> To: michaelnottebrock@gmx.net Cc: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@freebsd.org>, gnome@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, kde-freebsd@freebsd.kde.org Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] system:/media/cd0 and volume_label not latin symbols Message-ID: <1203.84.44.128.56.1175898892.squirrel@lofi.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1263.81.173.179.111.1175885648.squirrel@lofi.dyndns.org> References: <1263.81.173.179.111.1175885648.squirrel@lofi.dyndns.org>
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I wrote:
> [case-sensitive sorting rants & other things]
Over all that I forgot to point out why lack of collation support in the
UTF-8 locales actually matters anyway.
Take for instance the Lithuanian locale:
FreeBSD has locale definitions for
lt_LT.ISO8859-13, lt_LT.ISO8859-4 and lt_LT.UTF-8.
r
Lithuanian alphabet:
a ą b c č d e ę ė f g h i [...]
$ setenv LANG lt_LT.ISO8859-13
$ touch a ą b c č d
$ ls
a ą b c č d
$ rm *
$ setenv LANG lt_LT.UTF-8
$ touch a ą b c č d
$ ls
$ a b c d ą č
^^^
wrong!
And that's a rather big oops - at least for Lithuanians. So I don't think
you can really recommend everyone to switch their legacy locales to UTF-8
just yet.
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