From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 22 4:51:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flux.ptc.spbu.ru (flux.ptc.spbu.ru [195.19.225.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA1A37BAC7; Mon, 22 May 2000 04:50:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uwe@snark.ptc.spbu.ru) Received: from snark.ptc.spbu.ru (snark.ptc.spbu.ru [195.19.225.131]) by flux.ptc.spbu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3/cf-1.0.rbl) with ESMTP id PAA27794; Mon, 22 May 2000 15:49:45 +0400 (MSD) Received: (from uwe@localhost) by snark.ptc.spbu.ru (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id PAA26871; Mon, 22 May 2000 15:49:44 +0400 (MSD) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:49:44 +0400 From: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" To: freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, adam@whizkidtech.net Subject: Re: Wide-char support and libc Message-ID: <20000522154944.A26845@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> References: <3926ECA6.FF3B4993@heim9.tu-clausthal.de> <39221780.C18E585@cvzoom.net> <8g0d4i$ubd$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <200005202115.PAA54146@billy-club.village.org> <392728B7.D41E6FC7@heim9.tu-clausthal.de> <20000521095507.A21004@cartier.cirx.org> <3929195E.D9E26A36@rostock.zgdv.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <3929195E.D9E26A36@rostock.zgdv.de>; from "Thomas Runge" on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 13:26:22 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 13:26:22 +0200, Thomas Runge wrote: > Look here: http://www.whizkidtech.net/i18n/wc/ I wish this page has less FUD about Unicode. Reference to Unicode being controlled by Microsoft is a prominent example. As for the list of problems with Unicode given on that page - all of the items in the list are arguable and, IMO, all can be refuted. I do have first-hand experience of working with Unicode consortium (I have contributed to extensions of Tibetan block in 3.0). I want to say for the record that people from Unicode/WG2 I worked with were very open-minded, helpful and professional. Oh, and none of them was from Microsoft ;-). SY, Uwe -- uwe@ptc.spbu.ru | Zu Grunde kommen http://www.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/ | Ist zu Grunde gehen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message