Unicode-based FreeBSD

[Adrian Penisoara]

Hi,

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Alexander Churanov
<alexanderchuranov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> I am interested in FreeBSD internationalization and unicode support. I
> already spent some time examining the source of syscons. I think that
> syscons is the main problem in bringing full UTF-8 support to FreeBSD out of
> box. It seems that I am ready with the solution. That's why I am writing to
> this list.
>
> I have following questions:
>
> 0) Is moving to UTF-8 from 8-bit codepages desired for FreeBSD?

 I can't pronounce on this but, since the majority of modern OS'es
have Unicode support in the console, I believe it's a good thing to
have.

>
> 1) Is unicode support in character-mode (I mean plain tty, not Xorg) FreeBSD
> human interface alreay implemented?

 Last time I checked, no.

>
> 2) Is somebody working on that?
>
> 3) What is the correct branch to check out source code? From what
> repository?

 Usually stuff gets imported into the development tree (HEAD, also
known as -CURRENT) then, if proven stable, is ported back to the
-STABLE branch.
 SVN repository is available on http://svn.freebsd.org/base/ , but
developers may get access to Perforce (P4) development branches for
long running projects.

>
> 4) What is the process of submitting changes?

  Get in touch with a FreeBSD committer. For starters I think you
could engage someone on the freebsd-hackers list.

Regards,
Adrian.