Subject: Re: Hello,I Need Help,NetBSD for Chinese
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: skysbird <skysbird@bsdchina.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/04/2005 11:16:35
Thanks for your help,and now I have a chinese Gnome(KDE)on my NetBSD. But my 
files in chinese name are too many in my Windows Disk, I cannot change their 
name's code to ascii or utf-8 one by one. I hope someone can tell me whether 
there is a tool like gbfs support in Freebsd in NetBSD now.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Nelson" <netb@yuba.kcn.ne.jp>
Newsgroups: gmane.os.netbsd.general
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: Hello,I Need Help,NetBSD for Chinese


> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:24:59PM +0000, skysbird wrote:
>> Hello everyone here,I'm a fresher on NetBSD from China.We have an 
>> organization
>> do something about Chinese Language on NetBSD.But now I have some 
>> questions to
>> ask,and I Need the help from all of you!
>>
>> First I want to know whether NetBSD supports GBK code?
>>
>> Second I want to know How can I mount a Windows Disk which contains 
>> Chinese
>> filename.I know I can use "mount -t msdos -L zh_CN.eucCN...." to achieve 
>> it in
>> FreeBSD. But How can I make it on NetBSD?
>>
>> I need your help!!!!!!
>
> I've asked these questions before about Japanese, but have not gotten
> much in the way of answers.  Hopefully the more there are of us out there,
> the more likely someone with development skills will step in.  If you use
> Xwindows, it should be fairly easy to use Chinese with gui tools.
>
> My impression is that NetBSD lags pretty far behind Linux (and I guess
> FreeBSD, too, from what you say) when it comes to CJK on the cui 
> (character
> user interface).  In order to use Japanese on NetBSD I need to recompile
> pretty much all of the text handling tools like sed, gawk, grep and vi.
> I've never tried finding an ls that would work with CJK since I find the
> WWW browser Lynx very convenient to use for viewing and manipulating files
> which have been named in Japanese.  I *think* it may work for you with
> Chinese, too.  Usually I change these files to ascii names right away,
> however, since it is so inconvenient to work with them on NetBSD.
>
> Keep in touch and report any successes you have.  Thanks.
>
> -- 
> henry nelson
>  day job << http://yuba.kcn.ne.jp/pmp/nelson/neken.html
>