Re: UTF-8 and locale support
2010/1/20 Jordi Beltran Creix : > For the record, a few months ago I grabbed a FreeBSD source tree and > grafted its locale and multibyte support(I think theirs is the best) > to (then current)OpenBSD libc. I have uploaded the hack here just in case someone is interested. If you are not interested you don't need to let me know, thank you. I know it sucks too. http://code.google.com/p/obsdfbsdi18n/
Re: UTF-8 and locale support
2010/1/18 Toni Mueller : > This feature will be available once someone sits down and writes the > code. I though I was that someone, several weeks/months ago, but > haven't made any progress. Instead, Jordi Beltran Creix has, to the > best of my knowledge, done groundbreaking work in this direction. > > > Kind regards, > --Toni++ > > More like system-breaking work :) For the record, a few months ago I grabbed a FreeBSD source tree and grafted its locale and multibyte support(I think theirs is the best) to (then current)OpenBSD libc. Grafted is the word. All the character data needed came from a FreeBSD base package and I made no effort to port the software required to compile it on OpenBSD. There were also a few incompatible datatypes, defines, structures and changes in library sizes that I just walked around. All in all, locale support is pretty encapsulated in both systems, I got the grafted library to compile using symlinks to the unchanged libc. Once it compiled, GTK+ apps, IMMs, perl, etc. all started supporting multiple encodings and localized libc error messages with no apparent problem. Not groundbreaking at all, but I think doing it properly may be the shortest path to good character and locale support on OpenBSD.
Re: UTF-8 and locale support
Hello, On Thu, 17.12.2009 at 12:43:33 +0100, Artur Litwinowicz wrote: >I would like to ask about potential plans regarding UTF-8 in locales > support. ;} >The problem starts when I am trying to create PostgreSQL cluster The problem manifests itself on many other occasions as well. > Please let me know if is any solution for this problem exists or in the > future that feature will be available :) This feature will be available once someone sits down and writes the code. I though I was that someone, several weeks/months ago, but haven't made any progress. Instead, Jordi Beltran Creix has, to the best of my knowledge, done groundbreaking work in this direction. Kind regards, --Toni++
UTF-8 and locale support
Hello, I would like to ask about potential plans regarding UTF-8 in locales support. In details (now on my box runs 4.6 release) I am looking in /usr/share/locale for xx_XX.UTF-8 but all catalogs with UTF-8 are empty - current release is not supporting that encoding ? The problem starts when I am trying to create PostgreSQL cluster with: --locale=pl_PL.UTF8 (cluster creation program says that there is no locale support) - without that it is not possible to sort properly data in SQL queries :( Please let me know if is any solution for this problem exists or in the future that feature will be available :) Best regards, Artur ps. OpenBSD is for me the BEST system on the World and I do not like to use any other :)
