From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 19:49:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A23106566C for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:49:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572A28FC1B for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:49:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (unknown [88.130.215.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77AF8A17D3 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:49:17 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B9A9ABC.90801@bsdforen.de> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:49:16 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100302 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4B9A7D2D.9070903@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:49:19 -0000 On 12/03/2010 19:23, 葉佳威 Jiawei Ye wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: >> Isn`t it time for FreeBSD to fully support Unicode/UTF-8 by now? >> It is considered to be standard charset by now. XML uses it by default. >> If you are working with texts in different languages there is no >> alternative to UTF-8. >> If you chat with a Linux machine you can easily run into charset >> troubles if you are >> still using the old iso-8859-1. >> >> By now it is no problem to activate UTF-8 for your console. >> However a comprehensive Unicode support would require much more: >> i.e. configuring all user packages like KDE for Unicode support and >> asserting that also file names (f.i. from ext2 partitions) are interpreted >> correctly. > Do you have a concrete example of how FreeBSD fails to support UTF-8? > I have been setting my LANG to zh_TW.UTF-8 for years without problem > with modern software. As this is the ports list, I guess you have some > issues with the software in the ports collection? I second this. I've been using en_GB.UTF-8 since 5.3. Even the file system can deal with UTF-8 encoded file names. I tried to create files with Arabian, Chinese, Russian and other characters. It all worked. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?