Re: Re: [dev] Fwd: OT:GUI wireless connections management?

On 30 May 2010 00:58, Ilya Ilembitov <ilembitov_AT_ya.ru> wrote:
>> well I'm on openbsd. ifconfig is used for everything.
>
> Well, that changes pretty much everything. OpenBSD's ifconfig is probably a unique thing among other BSDs (AFAIK) and is nothing like Linux's ifconfig. And it's much simpler to use than iwconfig+wpa_supplicant in Linux. However, there are some types of encryption OpenBSD can't handle yet (although they are not as widespread as WPA/WPA2+TKIP/PSK).
>
> Honestly, because of things like that I would gladly switch to OpenBSD (since it supports all of my laptop's hardware and has all the software I need). But the fact that currently it doesn't have UTF-8 is really stopping me from doing so.

OpenBSD has excellent support of the 7bit ascii subset of UTF-8. What
else would you *really* need?

For my German conversations I'm in favor to rewrite German umlauts
like so: ae/Ae oe/Oe ue/Ue and sz and be still UTF8 compliant,
regardless the platform in use.

I understand that for cyrillic this would be a problem though.
Nevertheless you could live with KOI8 and use icu's uconv for
converting that stuff to UTF8 if you need to interchange with UTF8
world.

Cheers,
Anselm
Received on Sun May 30 2010 - 18:29:34 UTC