Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:31:55 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Ed Hall <edhall@weirdnoise.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-I18N@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standard wchar_t functions missing Message-ID: <20001122123155.O18037@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200011222034.MAA12121@screech.weirdnoise.com>; from edhall@weirdnoise.com on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:34:09PM -0800 References: <200011222034.MAA12121@screech.weirdnoise.com>
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* Ed Hall <edhall@weirdnoise.com> [001122 12:28] wrote: > 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? Give me a url to the patches? :) The funny thing is that over a year ago I could have sworn I saw people almost completeing this project. I'm going to dig around a bit and see what I can find. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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