Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:29:41 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Tomas Pluskal <plusik@pohoda.cz> Cc: freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: multibyte(3) functions not working ? Message-ID: <200203082129.g28LTf644313@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020308191246.H1072-100000@s096-n062.tele2.cz> References: <200203081811.g28IB2t40133@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020308191246.H1072-100000@s096-n062.tele2.cz>
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<<On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 19:16:53 +0100 (CET), Tomas Pluskal <plusik@pohoda.cz> said: > I know that ISO8859-2 is not multibyte encoding, but in fact gnumeric, > gedit (and I believe a lot of other software) expect the multibyte > functions to work anyway (and to work as "translate characters from > current locale's encoding to UNICODE" and reverse). They are broken. (Or perhaps they are relying on new behavior in C99, but I rather doubt it.) > Why does this work in linux ? Because Linux (or rather, glibc) implements it the way these broken programs expect. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message
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