Contributed by jose on from the around-the-world dept.
"recently JFCh tried to port FreeBSD's locale support into OpenBSD's libc. It provides collating according to LC_* environment, wide chars, etc, etc.This is pretty cool, I know some people are using other BSD systems because getting the correct characters and locale information is not in the base system. The project has no plans at this time to support changing the locale of the system due to the various difficulties it would incur in a variety of systems, but from time to time OpenBSD enthusists from around the world make some updates.The diff is against CVS sources from jan.22 2003. All patches & binaries are located at http://www.benhur.prf.cuni.cz/wydobitki/openbsd/locale/ and has used it succesfully with national language sort in postgresql. The original work is mentioned in a mail to the tech@ list
Also, Jung tried to port NetBSD's locale support to OpenBSD in Nov, 2002. He has posted a screenshot here for you to see."
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By Jeffrey () on
Big Note! I'm _not_ complaining in any way.
Yes, there is libiconv in ports of course...
I wish I knew enough to help with these things.
By Too lazy to get an account () on
However, I'm hoping that as real localization makes it into releases that it remains simple to side-step it and default to the plain ole C locale.
I've just been bitten in the ass too many times by internationalization issues during compilation and setup on Linux and FreeBSD that I just do my best stay clear of most i18n stuff as much as I can.
I claim extreme ignorance of the greater picture, and the differences between i18n and l10n. All I do is look for the "switch" to turn it off, always. As long as I can find that switch, and find a way to tape it down, I'll be happy.
Either that, or it becomes so complete and stable that I can truly run with the en-CA locale as default without breakage.
Only because I can, "G". Only because I can.
By mirabile () mirabile@bsdcow.net on mailto:mirabile@bsdcow.net
I dont need more than native utf-8 support;
I don't want to be surprised by, say french
error messages (and the German message catalogues
look weird to a native speaker, too...)
IF you want it, make it optional, that's all I
demand (mk.conf option like KERBEROS5=no would
be fine)...
By Anonymous Coward () on
But before anyone flames me I do understand the need for locales. Personally I just don't want them :-).
By Anonymous Coward () on