From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 12:28:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from screech.weirdnoise.com (209-128-78-198.bayarea.net [209.128.78.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469F637B479; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:28:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from screech.weirdnoise.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by screech.weirdnoise.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA12121; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:34:09 -0800 Message-Id: <200011222034.MAA12121@screech.weirdnoise.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.3 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-I18N@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: edhall@weirdnoise.com Subject: Standard wchar_t functions missing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:34:09 -0800 From: Ed Hall Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have a senior developer at Yahoo! who is complaining about FreeBSD's lack of support for wchar_t. In particular, the ISO/ANSI and UNIX98 wide character functions are missing. This isn't the first time someone has complained about this -- internationalization is extremely important at Yahoo!, as you might guess. He wants to move his project to Linux for this and other reasons. I don't think this will happen, but I hear the threat more and more, and unlike most occasions there isn't a ready comeback. Now, I've done a bit of digging in the FreeBSD archives, and discovered that Itojun and his group have announced that their support for wchar_t is ready for integration. This was a month ago--has there been any progress in getting this going? Anything I can do to speed the process? -Ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message