Unicode-based FreeBSD

[Frank]

Even if you use an English locale with occasional accented letters, you might  
want ISO-8859-1 for legacy compatibility. Also I multiboot, sharing a Data 
Partition with other Unix flavours using ISO-8859-1. And I need to import 
previous tracks during Multisession CD/DVD Archive/Backup operations. And 
naturally I have legacy documents in ISO-8859-1, which corresponds to my 
old Windows Codepage 1252.

I've heard that Japanese and Chinese users prefer their own coding systems, 
because the Unicode Character Set in these languages is limited. Korean also 
has Combining Characters, and UTF-8 comes in 3 different Levels depending on 
its ability to cope with this. Maybe you need some contacts in other 
countries.

Faictz Ce Que Vouldras: Frank Mitchell

On Saturday 23 August 2008 01:00:28 Alexander Churanov wrote:
>
> I am interested in FreeBSD internationalization and unicode support. I
> already spent some time examining the source of syscons. I think that
> syscons is the main problem in bringing full UTF-8 support to FreeBSD out
> of box. It seems that I am ready with the solution. That's why I am writing
> to this list.
>
> 0) Is moving to UTF-8 from 8-bit codepages desired for FreeBSD?
>