On 12/03/2010 19:23, 葉佳威 Jiawei Ye wrote: > 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?
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? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
