Subject: Re: UTF-8 file names?
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
From: SODA Noriyuki <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/26/2004 06:24:12
>>>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:27:43 +0200,
	Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> said:

>> > How can I make NetBSD's base system programs use UTF-8 file
>> > names by default?
>> 
>> for example,
>> 
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> export LANG

>> Note that this makes not only pathnames, but also everything UTF-8.

> What needs to be done so that settings like
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> or
> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
> work, too?

These basically should work with the patch I just posted.

But currently we don't have message catalogs for UTF-8.
So, either
1. provide message catalogs by UTF-8.
or
2. provide automatic code conversion from existing message catalogs
  to different codesets like UTF-8.
is needed.

I guess 2 may be better.
--
soda