Quoting "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd_at_opal.com> (from Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:02:45 -0400): > Is it time to consider making the utf-8 encoding the default character > encoding in FreeBSD? > > Most other OSs have moved to utf-8 over the last few years. We > remain somewhat behind in this respect, which is odd, considering > the wide international participation in the FreeBSD community. > > It's not much work to do this. The notes in the link I posted > and the earlier message which started this thread suggest where > work still needs to be done: > > - ncurses in the base system will need updating to a > current version with wide-character support > > - we may need to update the base fonts so that more > iso10646 ones have more complete character support If there's not a BSD licensed replacement with at least the same quality, this may be the hardest part. > - some work will need to be done to fix wide-character > related bugs in a few utilities, e.g., nvi > > - utf-8 will have to be made the default character > encoding in startup scripts for the various utilities > and ports that are affected Why? The start scripts are written in english and I doubt we will start to use translated ones. So all they use is/should be 7-bit clean. Wy do we need to make UTF-8 the default for them? If someone wants to use UTF-8, he can set the locale accordingly, but for the rest of the system I don't see a point in switching. Bye, Alexander. -- Sometimes I live in the country, And sometimes I live in town. And sometimes I have a great notion, To jump in the river and drown. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild _at_ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137Received on Tue Jun 27 2006 - 09:13:25 UTC
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