From owner-freebsd-i18n Fri May 17 14: 3:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Received: from a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (a96180.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.96.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84EA737B401 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 14:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5E8B22171; Fri, 17 May 2002 23:03:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 23:03:14 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai To: mubariz kharbe Cc: freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Queries on freeBSD I18N support Message-ID: <20020517210314.GA44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <426C1E9EBA27D411839000D0B74752F8037E603F@punmsg02.ad.infosys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <426C1E9EBA27D411839000D0B74752F8037E603F@punmsg02.ad.infosys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organisation: Ninth Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -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, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / asmodai / Kita no Mono asmodai@wxs.nl, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.org http://www.softweyr.com/asmodai/ | http://www.tendra.org/ No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message