Comments on: Locales everywhere https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2015/11/12/locales-everywhere/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Sat, 14 Nov 2015 11:53:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: john https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2015/11/12/locales-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-355622 Sat, 14 Nov 2015 11:53:13 +0000 http://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=17076#comment-355622 corey,
The changes include *COLLATION* and *CTYPE* definition. Every locale, including UTF-8 has six LC types.

OpenBSD can benefit from this work — it provides automatic generation of the LC_* files that make up the locales. FreeBSD had not updated theirs in a decade, so without generation the data gets static.

You’re only talking about encoding. (ISO-8859-*, etc)

]]> By: corey https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2015/11/12/locales-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-355611 Sat, 14 Nov 2015 03:06:22 +0000 http://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=17076#comment-355611 Not OpenBSD. They recently dropped locale support in base for everything except C (ASCII) and UTF-8, preferring to leave support for other locales in applications to external facilities (e.g., iconv). The existing support for other locales was evidently unmaintained.

]]> By: Justin Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2015/11/12/locales-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-355592 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:51:50 +0000 http://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=17076#comment-355592 Sure? I think there may be the hurdle of character support in whatever program you are using, but the facilities will be there if the program can take advantage of them.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2015/11/12/locales-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-355590 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 03:08:12 +0000 http://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=17076#comment-355590 So, long story short, eventually I will be able to type ä, å, ö, in the console after selecting my locale in Dragonfly?

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