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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.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5hpf84$48l@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <33315920.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5h8h7k$kjd@sebastian.ifi.unizh.ch> <5hbq15$mtc@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:167581 comp.os.linux.advocacy:90901 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2927 Hello! In article <5hbq15$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.