Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: > 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 Our vi with the builtin curses works pretty well with UTF-8 on current. -- Adam
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