Re: UTF8 (Was: [PATCH] replace 0xA0 to whitespace in plain text files (part 2))

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 01:16:24PM +0300, markucz%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:02:33 +0200
> Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Martin Husemann wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:05:38AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > >> I question the premise behind "stay at latin1".
> > > 
> > > Just to feed the fire: we have files with different locales in the source
> > > tree, and would need to convert those properly, for example:
> > > 
> > >   src/distrib/utils/sysinst/msg.mi.pl
> > > 
> > > is ISO8859-2, AFAICT. (I forgot to commit a patch that makes sysinst
> > > switch to proper locale - should dig that up and discuss on tech-install)
> > > 
> > ...which brings up the question if NetBSD shouldn't go UTF8 anyway?  The
> > character set are mostly annoying for us that do not have English as our
> > native language, and UTF8 isn't too invasive on the system.
> > 
> > -- Ragge
> > 
> ... which in turn brings up the question of adding UTF-8 support in wscons,
> creating/finding UTF-8 console fonts, etc.

Fonts are not the problem, at least with X11 - but curses eats what
looks to it like highbit-set (iso-8859-foo-like) control characters,
e.g. one of the bytes of the utf-8-sequence of ß, so I'm not too
happy with it. (That's for 4.0 - I think some work was in progress
to change this?)

Regards,
        -is
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