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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.nap.net!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 08:18:58 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 211 Message-ID: <3337D0C2.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5gpvf8$4h1$1@usenet.logical.net> <333092B4.7DC23153@webshuttle.ch> <33315920.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5h8h7k$kjd@sebastian.ifi.unizh.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Harald Weidner <weidner@ifi.unizh.ch> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:166543 comp.os.linux.advocacy:90045 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2890 (Reply both EMAIL and NEWS.) Harald Weidner wrote: > > In article <33315920.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>, > John S. Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >That is an *interesting* viewpoint, but the core team on FreeBSD is > >very international (let alone the base of contributors.) We > >regularly have issues come up that the non-US core team and contributors > >help make sure that the US core team and contributors don't > >cause FreeBSD to become US centric. > > 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? > I believe that FreeBSD does (in both X and in the standard syscons.), refer to the fonts index for syscons below: # # $Id: INDEX.fonts,v 1.4 1996/08/19 22:13:04 wosch Exp $ # # database for vidfont(8) # # Format <file>:<lang>:<description> # # lang: ar bg cs da de el en es fi fr hr hu is it iw ja ko nl no pl pt # ro ru sh sk sl sv tr zh # lang: lang,lang # # Example: # german.iso.kbd:de:Deutsch ISO # german.iso.kbd:en:German ISO # # If lang empty use 'en' (us-english) as default. # # See also setlocal # /usr/share/locale, /usr/X11/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias ###################################################################### # Subject: ISO 8859-1 National Character Set FAQ # Date: 23 Nov 1994 15:48:14 GMT # Archive-name: internationalization/iso-8859-1-charset # # ISO 8859-1 supports the following languages: # Afrikaans, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, # German, Galician, Irish, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, # Spanish and Swedish. # # (It has been called to my attention that Albanian can be written with # ISO 8859-1 also. However, from a standards point of view, ISO 8859-2 # is the appropriate character set for Balkan countries.) # # ISO 8859-1 is just one part of the ISO-8859 standard, which specifies # several character sets, e.g.: # 8859-1 Europe, Latin America # 8859-2 Eastern Europe # 8859-3 SE Europe/miscellaneous (Esperanto, Maltese, etc.) # 8859-4 Scandinavia/Baltic (mostly covered by 8859-1 also) # 8859-5 Cyrillic # 8859-6 Arabic # 8859-7 Greek # 8859-8 Hebrew # 8859-9 Latin5, same as 8859-1 except for Turkish instead of Icelandic # 8859-10 Latin6, for Eskimo/Scandinavian languages # ################################ # Language support: MENU, FONT # MENU:en:Choose your keyboard font MENU:de:Whle Deine Schrift MENU:fr:Choisissez votre fonte cran # FONT:en:cp437-8x16.fnt FONT:de,fr:iso-8x16.fnt FONT:ru:koi8-r-8x16.fnt # cp437-8x14.fnt:en:Codepage 437 English, 8x14 cp437-8x14.fnt:de:Codeseite 437 Englisch, 8x14 cp437-8x14.fnt:fr:Code page 437 Anglais, 8x14 cp437-8x16.fnt:en:Codepage 437 English, 8x16 cp437-8x16.fnt:de:Codeseite 437 Englisch, 8x16 cp437-8x16.fnt:fr:Code page 437 Anglais, 8x16 cp437-thin-8x16.fnt:en:Codepage 437 English, 8x16 (thin) cp437-thin-8x16.fnt:de:Codeseite 437 Englisch, 8x16 (dnn) cp437-thin-8x16.fnt:fr:Code page 437 Anglais, 8x16 (dnn) cp437-8x8.fnt:en:Codepage 437 English, 8x8 cp437-8x8.fnt:de:Codeseite 437 Englisch, 8x8 cp437-8x8.fnt:fr:Code page 437 Anglais, 8x8 cp437-thin-8x8.fnt:en:Codepage 437 English, 8x8 (thin) cp437-thin-8x8.fnt:de:Codeseite 437 Englisch, 8x8 (dnn) cp437-thin-8x8.fnt:fr:Code page 437 Anglais, 8x8 (dnn) cp850-8x14.fnt:en:Codepage 850 Multilingual Latin I, 8x14 cp850-8x14.fnt:de:Codeseite 850 Mehrsprachig (Lateinisch I), 8x14 cp850-8x14.fnt:fr:Latin multilingual I, 8x14 cp850-8x16.fnt:en:Codepage 850 Multilingual Latin I, 8x16 cp850-8x16.fnt:de:Codeseite 850 Mehrsprachig (Lateinisch I), 8x16 cp850-8x16.fnt:fr:Latin multilingual I, 8x16 cp850-thin-8x16.fnt:en:Codepage 850 Multilingual Latin I, 8x16 (thin) cp850-thin-8x16.fnt:de:Codeseite 850 Mehrsprachig (Lateinisch I), 8x16 (dnn) cp850-thin-8x16.fnt:fr:Latin multilingual I, 8x16 (fine) cp850-8x8.fnt:en:Codepage 850 Multilingual Latin I, 8x8 cp850-8x8.fnt:de:Codeseite 850 Mehrsprachig (Lateinisch I), 8x8 cp850-8x8.fnt:fr:Latin multilingual I, 8x8 cp850-thin-8x8.fnt:en:Codepage 850 Multilingual Latin I, 8x8 (thin) cp850-thin-8x8.fnt:de:Codeseite 850 Mehrsprachig (Lateinisch I), 8x8 (dnn) cp850-thin-8x8.fnt:fr:Latin multilingual I, 8x8 (fine) cp865-8x14.fnt:en:Codepage 865 Norwegian, 8x14 cp865-8x14.fnt:de:Codeseite 865 Norwegen, 8x14 cp865-8x14.fnt:fr:Code page 865 Norvgien, 8x14 cp865-8x16.fnt:en:Codepage 865 Norwegian, 8x16 cp865-8x16.fnt:de:Codeseite 865 Norwegen, 8x16 cp865-8x16.fnt:fr:Code page 865 Norvgien, 8x16 cp865-thin-8x16.fnt:en:Codepage 865 Norwegian, 8x16 (thin) cp865-thin-8x16.fnt:de:Codeseite 865 Norwegen, 8x16 (dnn) cp865-thin-8x16.fnt:fr:Code page 865 Norvgien, 8x16 (fine) cp865-8x8.fnt:en:Codepage 885 Norwegian, 8x8 cp865-8x8.fnt:de:Codeseite 865 Norwegen, 8x8 cp865-8x8.fnt:fr:Code page 865 Norvgien, 8x8 cp865-thin-8x8.fnt:en:Codepage 885 Norwegian, 8x8 (thin) cp865-thin-8x8.fnt:de:Codeseite 885 Norwegen, 8x8 (thin) cp865-thin-8x8.fnt:fr:Code page 885 Norvgien, 8x8 (fine) cp866-8x8.fnt:en:Codepage 866 Russian, 8x8 cp866-8x8.fnt:de:Codeseite 866 Russisch, 8x8 cp866-8x8.fnt:ru: 866 , 8x8 cp866-8x8.fnt:ru: 866 , 8x8 cp866-8x14.fnt:en:Codepage 866 Russian, 8x14 cp866-8x14.fnt:de:Codeseite 866 Russisch, 8x14 cp866-8x14.fnt:ru: 866 , 8x14 cp866-8x14.fnt:fr:Code page 866 Russe, 8x14 cp866-8x16.fnt:en:Codepage 866 Russian, 8x16 cp866-8x16.fnt:de:Codeseite 866 Russisch, 8x16 cp866-8x16.fnt:ru: 866 , 8x16 cp866-8x16.fnt:fr:Code page 866 Russe, 8x16 cp866b-8x16.fnt:en:Codepage 866b Russian, 8x16 cp866b-8x16.fnt:de:Codeseite 866b Russisch, 8x16 cp866b-8x16.fnt:ru: 866b , 8x16 cp866b-8x16.fnt:fr:Code page 866b Russe, 8x16 cp866c-8x16.fnt:en:Codepage 866c Russian, 8x16 cp866c-8x16.fnt:de:Codeseite 866c Russisch, 8x16 cp866c-8x16.fnt:ru: 866c , 8x16 cp866c-8x16.fnt:fr:Code page 866c Russe, 8x16 iso-8x14.fnt:en:ISO-8859-1 West European, 8x14 iso-8x14.fnt:de:ISO-8859-1 Westeuropa, 8x14 iso-8x14.fnt:fr:ISO-8859-1 Est europen, 8x14 iso-8x16.fnt:en:ISO-8859-1 West European, 8x16 iso-8x16.fnt:de:ISO-8859-1 Westeuropa, 8x16 iso-8x16.fnt:fr:ISO-8859-1 Est europen, 8x16 iso-thin-8x16.fnt:en:ISO-8859-1 West European, 8x16 (thin) iso-thin-8x16.fnt:de:ISO-8859-1 Westeuropa, 8x16 (dnn) iso-thin-8x16.fnt:fr:ISO-8859-1 Est europen, 8x16 (fine) iso-8x8.fnt:en:ISO-8859-1 West European, 8x8 iso-8x8.fnt:de:ISO-8859-1 Westeuropa, 8x8 iso-8x8.fnt:fr:ISO-8859-1 Est europen, 8x8 iso-8859-2-8x16.fnt:en:ISO-8859-2 Central European, 8x16 iso-8859-2-8x16.fnt:de:ISO-8859-2 Mitteleuropa, 8x16 koi8-r-8x14.fnt:en:Russian koi8-r, 8x14 koi8-r-8x14.fnt:de:Russisch koi8-r, 8x14 koi8-r-8x14.fnt:ru: koi8-r, 8x14 koi8-r-8x14.fnt:fr:Russe koi8-r, 8x14 koi8-r-8x16.fnt:en:Russian koi8-r, 8x16 koi8-r-8x16.fnt:de:Russisch 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