nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-21 Thread Dominic Fandrey
It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C nroff -man formats .An name Aq email as name email, it uses different characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 name ⟨email⟩. These characters are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them. Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-21 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 21/03/2010 10:24 Dominic Fandrey said the following: It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C nroff -man formats .An name Aq email as name email, it uses different characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 name ⟨email⟩. These characters are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't

Re: ATA 4K sector issues

2010-03-21 Thread Olivier Smedts
2010/3/17 Thiago Damas tda...@gmail.com:  I'll try tomorrow more zfs tests, with 1M alignment on begining of disk.  But I also remember that zfs block size its 128k, but metadata can be of dynamic size. And we can use compressed files too. ZFS block size for data is not fixed at 128k, search

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-21 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 21/03/2010 11:02, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 21/03/2010 10:24 Dominic Fandrey said the following: It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C nroff -man formats .An name Aq email as name email, it uses different characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 name ⟨email⟩. These characters are

Re: Unicode in Syscons: I'd like to go on

2010-03-21 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 17/03/2010 15:34, Alexander Churanov wrote: Hi folks! Some time ago I was initiating the work on syscons driver ( see http://wiki.freebsd.org/SysconsUnicodeProject ), then was too busy and my part of the work stalled for about a year. At present I am going to continue working on this.

Logical CPUs cannot be disabled via W3520

2010-03-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
Someone on the forums [1] noticed that machdep.hlt_logical_cpus was unavailable on their system, and I did some poking around and noticed that it was as well. Should SMT logical CPUs be disable(-able) via machdep.hlt_logical_cpus as well or is it just classic HTT based chips? Thanks, -Garrett

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/21/10 01:24, Dominic Fandrey wrote: It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C nroff -man formats .An name Aq email as name email, it uses different characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 name ⟨email⟩. These characters are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have

HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 1Q/2010

2010-03-21 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Dear all, I would like to remind you that the next round of status reports covering the first quarter of 2010 is due on April 15th, 2010. This initiative is very welcome in our community. Therefore, I would like to ask you to submit your status reports as soon as possible, so that we can

Looking for a mentor

2010-03-21 Thread Guillermo Amaral
Hi FreeBSDers, I'm a C and C++ developer and I am looking for anybody would be willing to help me get started in the FreeBSD development community. :D I'm trying to get more experience in both kernel and user-land development on FreeBSD. I won't take much of your time, I really need somebody to