Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:23:17 +0800 From: =?UTF-8?B?6JGJ5L2z5aiBIEppYXdlaSBZZQ==?= <leafy7382@gmail.com> To: Elmar Stellnberger <elmstel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD Message-ID: <c21e92e21003121023m65708c92p50d237d99d84dc8d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B9A7D2D.9070903@gmail.com> References: <4B9A7D2D.9070903@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Elmar Stellnberger <elmstel@gmail.com> 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? CW. -- "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then to the end user it's a duck, and end users have made it pretty clear they want a duck; whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant."
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