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Date:      Fri, 17 May 2002 23:03:14 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        mubariz kharbe <mubariz_kharbe@infy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Queries on freeBSD I18N support
Message-ID:  <20020517210314.GA44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <426C1E9EBA27D411839000D0B74752F8037E603F@punmsg02.ad.infosys.com>
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-On [20020509 07:15], mubariz kharbe (mubariz_kharbe@infy.com) wrote:
>1. What are the I18N support features available in freeBSD?

Some of the APIs from C90 and C99.  More is forthcoming.

>2. freeBSD has support for which foreing languages?

/usr/share/locale shows a list.
Furthermore 

>3. Does it support MultiByte characters and Unicode?

Multibyte, yes.  Unicode is supported due to iconv.

>4. If it supports Unicode, which encoding is used/supported, UTF-8,
>UTF-16 ot UTF-32?

See iconv.

>5. What could be the possible issues, if any?

Not full ANSI C wide-API support.

These are some quick points I could think up.  I am sure I missed
things, which other people will hopefully point out.

Hope this helps,

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