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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet 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 Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5hbq15$mtc@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5d7spf$8n6@web.nmti.com> <5d9p55$t1h@news.ox.ac.uk> <5dadfr$cnu@web.nmti.com> <n4stf5.tq2.ln@zen> <E6sIEF.1qE@truffula.sj.ca.us> <5gpvf8$4h1$1@usenet.logical.net> <333092B4.7DC23153@webshuttle.ch> <33315920.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5h8h7k$kjd@sebastian.ifi.unizh.ch> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:166459 comp.os.linux.advocacy:89939 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2885 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