Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 15:13:12 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Alexander Churanov <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system Message-ID: <20090506131312.GA48658@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <3cb459ed0905060328n4ad05d98xb5ba0c2e01d356e2@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090427183836.GA10793@zim.MIT.EDU> <49F5FE45.2090101@freebsd.org> <20090427193326.GA7654@britannica.bec.de> <20090427194904.GA11137@zim.MIT.EDU> <49F6C7A1.6070708@FreeBSD.org> <20090428122225.GA2862@britannica.bec.de> <24e9a86bf5995ba551db8f27aa204191.squirrel@webmail.kovesdan.org> <20090428180624.GA2223@britannica.bec.de> <4A00B897.809@FreeBSD.org> <3cb459ed0905060328n4ad05d98xb5ba0c2e01d356e2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 02:28:51PM +0400, Alexander Churanov wrote: > Gabor, Joerg, > > I am currently working on UTF-8 support in syscons and highly > interested in making FreeBSD using UTF-8 out of box. > > There is my $0.02: > > 1) Why discuss UCS-4 at all? UTF-32 is alreay in place. SImple, > standardized, fixed-width and stateless. UCS-4 and UTF-32 are, for most purposes, just two different names for the same encoding. > 2) I'm against using wchar_t internally, because C language standard > does not require that a wchar_t variable can hold an UTF-32 code > point. The C standard has very few requirements on wchar_t. It is up to each implementation to decide how wchar_t is defined. There is nothing which prevents the FreeBSD project from deciding that on FreeBSD wchar_t is always 32 bits wide, which can then be relied upon in FreeBSD-specific code. It is not like somebody else will change the relevant include files without warning. > 3) Please, give an example of character that does not fit into UCS-4. > I'll check whether it fits into UTF-32. I expect that any character > fits into a single UTF-32 code point. > > Sincerely, > Alexander Churanov > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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