Fwd: Encoding in 7-CURRENT (next 7.0).

Excuse me this top-posting. Is only to give you the opportunity to
read and to answer; what is the appropiate list to talk about this?

Thank you!

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From: TooMany Secrets <toomany_at_toomany.net>
Date: 19-sep-2007 16:38
Subject: Re: Encoding in 7-CURRENT (next 7.0).
To: Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_freebsd.org>


2007/9/19, Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_freebsd.org>:
> I don't quite get what you mean by "system into utf-8 encoding". You can
> have UTF-8 filenames in UFS (and AFAIK almost all other file systems,
> with exception of msdosfs), and there will be no corruption.

I know, but...

> Problems you will almost certainly encounter are:
> - bogus / wrong sorting (FreeBSD's locale data for utf-8 is very lacking)

One of them...

> - the console (text-mode) doesn't support utf-8 so you'll see "garbage"
> on it

Another...

> - problems with Samba (more) and NFS (less, if the destination system is
> configured to interpret file names as utf-8).

Another uncomfortable think...

Three or two years ago, I think that one "priority" in the big next
release (7), would be the UTF-8 support at whole system.
Why don't enable support for this in all operating system (I hate to
say this), like in any linux distro? Was not one of the goals to give
a good support for desktop? How is possible to make this without
anything like the support of UTF-8 (please, note the quotation marks)?

Maybe, like I was say, I'm saying something stupid. If this is thus,
please excuse me.

Thank you very much.

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