utf-8 support

Tim Robbins tjr at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 18 01:48:54 GMT 2004


On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:15:58PM +0300, Manessiotis George wrote:

> Good evening,
> 
> Can I have support for utf-8 on a FreeBSD 4.9 OS ?
> 
> As far as I can understand what I need is a el_GR.UTF-8 definition in 
> /usr/share/locale.
> 
> I can use the existing el_GR.ISO8859-7 but the result I get when I call 
> strftime with this locale is in ISO 8859 format, which is useless on a 
> web page that is witten in UTF-8.
> 
> Any ideas ?

Install misc/utf8locale from the ports collection or from a binary package.

These UTF-8 locales have been merged into the base system in -CURRENT.



Tim


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