Hello,
a patch that adds UTF-8 support to LFS is available at:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~alexander/patches/lfs_book-r6890-utf8-1.patch
The rendered book is available at:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~alexander/lfs-book/
Note that there was at least one case where SVN silently merged things
incorrectly (chapter05/gawk.xml, already fixed), so read with caution
and ignore duplicate commands, if any.
What's missing is an exact list of problems with solutions, exact
blacklist of BLFS packages, and an instruction how to convert filenames
in your home directory to/from UTF-8 (without this, national characters
in filenames are unreadable in UTF-8 locales).
In fact, I think that the patch made the book much worse for beginners,
it adds stuff that hides educational value, and that not all editors
understand. A current _documented_ limitation that UTF-8 is not
supported, IMHO, better fits with the style of the book.
Thus, I object to merging this into trunk until enough questions are
asked. A branch is always OK.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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