Unicode support in Free bsd.

[Alejandro Imass]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 08/04/2010 20:11:15, Kotecha, Grishma wrote:
>> Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters?
>> Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname?
>> for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode pathnames (wide characters).
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> The tricky bit is getting the user-interface to interpret those names as
> Unicode (or whatever) and show you the appropriate sequence of glyphs in
> whatever character set you prefer.  In general you need to set various
> locale related environment variables plus you may need to run
> specialized terminal emulator software to enable means for entering
> non-roman characters via your keyboard.
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I find this thread interesting because I had similar problems in FBSD
with UTF-8. The virtual terminals will not support multi-byte
characters nor several other things. Nevertheless, if you have Gnome
(and I guess KDE as well) you can configure _that_ environment quite
easily to support UTF-8.

Just add:

gdm_lang="en_US.UTF-8"

or whatever other locale you want in your rc.conf and that's it. You
can also customize this on a per-user basis. I haven't got the
languages list to work yet in GDM, but all I needed was UTF-8 anyway.
If anyone knows how to get multi-locales to work with GDM it would be
awesome. I searched several threads but noone seemed to have an aswer.

Anyway, hope this helps.

Alejandro Imass




> See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html
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>        Matthew
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