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Today's Topics:
1. nroff -man, .An Aq formatting (Dominic Fandrey)
2. Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting (Andriy Gapon)
3. Re: ATA 4K sector issues (Olivier Smedts)
4. Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting (Dominic Fandrey)
5. Re: Unicode in Syscons: I'd like to go on (Dominic Fandrey)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:24:16 +0100
From: Dominic Fandrey <kami...@bsdforen.de>
Subject: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting
To: freebsd...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <4BA5D7B0...@bsdforen.de>
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It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man"
formats ".An name Aq email" as "name <email>", it uses different
characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters
are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them.
Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has trouble displaying them.
Does anybody know a workaround for this?
--
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:02:39 +0200
From: Andriy Gapon <a...@icyb.net.ua>
Subject: Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting
To: Dominic Fandrey <kami...@bsdforen.de>
Cc: freebsd...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <4BA5EEBF...@icyb.net.ua>
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on 21/03/2010 10:24 Dominic Fandrey said the following:
> It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man"
> formats ".An name Aq email" as "name <email>", it uses different
> characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters
> are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them.
Are you sure that they are even appropriate?
E.g. I think you won't be able to copy+paste such an address to any mail client.
My opinion is that ASCII angle brackets are the most appropriate here.
> Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has trouble displaying them.
>
> Does anybody know a workaround for this?
>
--
Andriy Gapon
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:45:18 +0100
From: Olivier Smedts <oli...@gid0.org>
Subject: Re: ATA 4K sector issues
To: Thiago Damas <tda...@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd...@freebsd.org
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<367b2c981003210345y4f8...@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/3/17 Thiago Damas <tda...@gmail.com>:
> �I'll try tomorrow more zfs tests, with 1M alignment on begining of disk.
> �But I also remember that zfs block size its 128k, but metadata can be of
> dynamic size. And we can use compressed files too.
ZFS block size for data is not fixed at 128k, search for recordsize in
the zfs man page.
> �There is a sysctl, md_compress, that I turned out in my tests, but not
> working as expected.
> �Why using gnop -S 4096 works well?
Interesting thread for issues with actual 4k disks :
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=447926
I'm waiting for a jumper on those 4k disks to turn off the "legacy" 512b mode.
>
> Thiago
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:05:48 +0100
From: Dominic Fandrey <kami...@bsdforen.de>
Subject: Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting
To: Andriy Gapon <a...@icyb.net.ua>
Cc: freebsd...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <4BA5FD8C...@bsdforen.de>
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On 21/03/2010 11:02, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 21/03/2010 10:24 Dominic Fandrey said the following:
>> It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man"
>> formats ".An name Aq email" as "name <email>", it uses different
>> characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters
>> are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them.
>
> Are you sure that they are even appropriate?
> E.g. I think you won't be able to copy+paste such an address to any mail client.
Well, that's just how I got them into the mail. I copied them out
of the terminal, that displays a square instead of the characters,
into my mail client, which displays them just fine.
> My opinion is that ASCII angle brackets are the most appropriate here.
I don't know about that, but they sure would be most convenient.
--
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:17:16 +0100
From: Dominic Fandrey <kami...@bsdforen.de>
Subject: Re: Unicode in Syscons: I'd like to go on
To: Alexander Churanov <alexande...@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <4BA6003C...@bsdforen.de>
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On 17/03/2010 15:34, Alexander Churanov wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> Some time ago I was initiating the work on syscons driver ( see
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/SysconsUnicodeProject ), then was too busy and my
> part of the work stalled for about a year. At present I am going to continue
> working on this.
> ...
Did you receive any responses to your mail?
I'm kind of a unicode fan boy and I'd like to know, whether something
is happening.
Regards
--
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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