On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Elmar Stellnberger <[email protected]> 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?
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