Comment 293 Re: Really? The console?

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Really? The console? (Score: 2, Interesting)

by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-06-24 16:38 (#28Y)

Maybe I'm old.

I don't get it. VT100 support. Check. Good to go, right? What else do you want from your console?

Not good enough? Fire up emacs and console from there.

What more is there?

Re: Really? The console? (Score: 1)

by tempest@pipedot.org on 2014-06-24 16:44 (#290)

I'm supposing you never downloaded a file with foreign characters then. I have this problem in Gentoo a lot. I download two files with distinct names, but all I see in a file listing is "??????". I wouldn't say the console is horrid in FreeBSD, but it's outdated and small problems like that have been piling up over time.

Re: Really? The console? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-24 22:24 (#293)

Good point. Same problem in windows with chinese fonts. Programs will not use the files and file management is a pain. Yes, I know, fixable ... but still a pain.

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