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From: uk1o@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Felix Schroeter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 1 Apr 1997 00:52:52 +0200
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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Hello!

In article <5hbq15$mtc@innocence.interface-business.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote:
>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.)

BSD/OS (as of 2.0 and 2.1) uses the silly CP850 for its console.

But the pressure wasn't as high as to drive me find out how to change
that. (I think, Harald meant the same BSD/OS machine as I sometimes
have to work on [but in most cases remotely].)

Regards, Felix.