On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, MikeM wrote:
> Has anyone thought of Unicode support on FreeBSD?
>
Depends on what you mean by 'Unicode support'.
If you use a suitable encoding (UTF-8?) everything should work, only it
might look strange, as userland doesn't support it. It is largely a
'application space' problem as I understand it - you need to modify each
and every utility to know that file names should be treated as strings of
wide characters. Toolkits providing a 'select file' std dialog need to be
dealt with.
> I think that it is inevitable that eventually FreeBSD
> will *need* to support unicode if it wants to continue
> as a viable operating system in the future. This means
> that it probably will need to be modified from the
> ground up. I am not well versed in the specifics of
> what's needed, but if someone could explain it to me
> I'd be gratefull.
>
See above for a subset.
> Is it possible, or is it totally out of the question?
>
> What would it require?
>
> Is there any way of implementing partial support,
> working in stages, untill it is fully supported?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mike.
>
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