Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:52:48 +0400 From: "Alexander Churanov" <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com> To: "Marcel Moolenaar" <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Svavar_L=FAthersson?= <admin@stuff.is> Subject: Re: Unicode-based FreeBSD Message-ID: <3cb459ed0808250952j572dfc35j2feb852a73de5ace@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <85D9ECC0-D8BB-406B-B527-036242A1BC4D@mac.com> References: <3cb459ed0808221700w335b0906g6901d8b8bec4dad9@mail.gmail.com> <200808241415.31812.mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> <6a7033710808241239p1cbdc7adwd4f87814b428b10b@mail.gmail.com> <3cb459ed0808241958v552eafejf7841f0f9993928e@mail.gmail.com> <48B28B8D.9030305@kjarrval.is> <3cb459ed0808250621s28a1b825u1cc16939951bb157@mail.gmail.com> <85D9ECC0-D8BB-406B-B527-036242A1BC4D@mac.com>
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2008/8/25 Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> > > On Aug 25, 2008, at 6:21 AM, Alexander Churanov wrote: > > I'm just trying to be realistic and provide doable solution. I leave plans >> of rewriting every bit of software to others. And I even think that latter >> is not required, since syscons console is probably not heavily used now. >> > > This is not true. FreeBSD is used in far more environments > than the typical desktop environment running X11. It is > therefore important to realize that you cannot claim that > there's always X11 to fall back upon when it comes to i18n > or that those cases are not significant or important enough > to consider. > > FYI, > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > xcllnt@mac.com Marcel, I do not know thestatistics, but as for me I'm either using FreeBSD as a desktop, or as a server (firewall, gateway, router, database - do not matter). On a desktop machine I have X and server is typically managed via ssh. This leaves only installation and single-user modes for syscons console. Other uses are rare for me. And how do you use syscons? Alexander Churanov
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