Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:43:09 +0100 From: Elmar Stellnberger <elmstel@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD Message-ID: <4B9A7D2D.9070903@gmail.com>
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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.
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