Unicode support in Free bsd.
Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode pathnames (wide characters). If so how to activate it. Is there any kind of environment variable that we need to set for it? Regards, Grishma ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Unicode support in Free bsd.
On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? UFS/UFS2 supports 8-bit chars (except NULL), so UTF8 representation for Unicode filenames ought to work OK. Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? Yes. for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode pathnames (wide characters). You can't use USC-2 / UTF-16 widechars. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Unicode support in Free bsd.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/2010 20:11:15, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode pathnames (wide characters). If so how to activate it. Is there any kind of environment variable that we need to set for it? In Unix you can create file names containing any arbitrary sequence of characters except for NULL (marks the end of a string in C) or '/' (the directory separator) All of the variants on open(2) and similar functions will accept any sequence of bytes conforming to that as a filename. The tricky bit is getting the user-interface to interpret those names as Unicode (or whatever) and show you the appropriate sequence of glyphs in whatever character set you prefer. In general you need to set various locale related environment variables plus you may need to run specialized terminal emulator software to enable means for entering non-roman characters via your keyboard. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku+OxUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwN0wCeO9QlEcsHkjpyaTPEeXRj+luT F18An0n1tqLRE6nD2Mrw/XKOGoWfYoxh =1s6j -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Unicode support in Free bsd.
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/2010 20:11:15, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode pathnames (wide characters). [...] The tricky bit is getting the user-interface to interpret those names as Unicode (or whatever) and show you the appropriate sequence of glyphs in whatever character set you prefer. In general you need to set various locale related environment variables plus you may need to run specialized terminal emulator software to enable means for entering non-roman characters via your keyboard. I find this thread interesting because I had similar problems in FBSD with UTF-8. The virtual terminals will not support multi-byte characters nor several other things. Nevertheless, if you have Gnome (and I guess KDE as well) you can configure _that_ environment quite easily to support UTF-8. Just add: gdm_lang=en_US.UTF-8 or whatever other locale you want in your rc.conf and that's it. You can also customize this on a per-user basis. I haven't got the languages list to work yet in GDM, but all I needed was UTF-8 anyway. If anyone knows how to get multi-locales to work with GDM it would be awesome. I searched several threads but noone seemed to have an aswer. Anyway, hope this helps. Alejandro Imass See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku+OxUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwN0wCeO9QlEcsHkjpyaTPEeXRj+luT F18An0n1tqLRE6nD2Mrw/XKOGoWfYoxh =1s6j -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Unicode support in Free bsd.
UTF8 works grate here in irssi and tcsh over putty, same goes for filenames. Had no problem with it what so ever, just needed to set in .cshrc: setenv LC_CTYPE he_IL.UTF-8 never checked any X applications though. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/2010 20:11:15, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode pathnames (wide characters). [...] The tricky bit is getting the user-interface to interpret those names as Unicode (or whatever) and show you the appropriate sequence of glyphs in whatever character set you prefer. In general you need to set various locale related environment variables plus you may need to run specialized terminal emulator software to enable means for entering non-roman characters via your keyboard. I find this thread interesting because I had similar problems in FBSD with UTF-8. The virtual terminals will not support multi-byte characters nor several other things. Nevertheless, if you have Gnome (and I guess KDE as well) you can configure _that_ environment quite easily to support UTF-8. Just add: gdm_lang=en_US.UTF-8 or whatever other locale you want in your rc.conf and that's it. You can also customize this on a per-user basis. I haven't got the languages list to work yet in GDM, but all I needed was UTF-8 anyway. If anyone knows how to get multi-locales to work with GDM it would be awesome. I searched several threads but noone seemed to have an aswer. Anyway, hope this helps. Alejandro Imass See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku+OxUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwN0wCeO9QlEcsHkjpyaTPEeXRj+luT F18An0n1tqLRE6nD2Mrw/XKOGoWfYoxh =1s6j -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
