From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Sep 1 9:58:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D5937B424; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e81GwQN30666; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 20:58:26 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 20:58:25 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Konstantin Chuguev Cc: Boris Popov , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal to include iconv library in the base system. Message-ID: <20000901205825.A30569@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20000901185945.A29804@nagual.pp.ru> <39AFD666.880FE6C@dante.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39AFD666.880FE6C@dante.org.uk>; from Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk on Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 05:16:38PM +0100 Organization: Biomechanoid Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 05:16:38PM +0100, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: > * new filesystems use Unicode encodings: UCS-2 (Windows), some may use > UTF-8. These encodings are not supported by XLAT. I assume Windows (Unicode) <-> 8bit charset tables are loadable too. Doesn't? > Exactly, this is what was intended. All [UNIX] charsets supported in the > FreeBSD distribution (i.e. which are present in the locale directory) PLUS > charsets used in other types of filesystems (Windows, Netware?, MacOS?) for Currently we support Windows and ISO 9660 for CDs, so PLUS Windows (Unicode) and ISO 9660 charsets. If we take Russian example, we need following tables (for kernel only): 1) KOI8-R <-> CP866 for MSDOS FS 2) KOI8-R <-> Unicode for Windows FS 3) We also need ISO 9660 conversion scheme, but I not know about character set used there. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message