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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 26 Mar 1997 18:31:01 GMT
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weidner@ifi.unizh.ch (Harald Weidner) wrote:

> I had to do with BSD/I 2.0 a time ago. I was not able to display
> the ISO-8895 (latin1) charset on the console without a kernel
> patch.
> 
> Does any of the BSD's have this ability?

Of course.  What do you think how i'd display the umlaut in my name
(Jörg)? ;-)

I can't really believe BSD/OS can't do it.  For the free BSDs, they
all can.  (I'm not sure about the default display driver of NetBSD,
but there are at least alternate drivers available.)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j