Re: international OBSD - locales and other such stuff?

[naddy_(_at_)_mips_(_dot_)_inka_(_dot_)_de (Christian Weisgerber)]

Carsten Menke <bootsy52_(_at_)_gmx_(_dot_)_net> wrote:

> P.S. Do you know how to get the euro sign working in OpenBSD ???

>From a technical point of view, this is an ill-defined question.

Since we don't have locales, there's really not much to do.  Our
tools are ignorant of character encoding issues.  We blindly assume
single-byte characters.  ctype(3) is hardwired to return code points
32..126 and 160..255 as printable, which is appropriate for ISO
8859-x character sets.

Europeans who are working in an ISO 8859-1 environment only need
to exchange their ISO 8859-1 fonts for 8859-15 ones.  For X11, this
is just a matter of font configuration.  I haven't looked at the
details for wscons(4) yet.


I strongly suggest for everybody who hasn't done so yet to read

A tutorial on character code issues
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy_(_at_)_mips_(_dot_)_inka_(_dot_)_de