Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:26:29 -0400 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system Message-ID: <20090428222629.GA17881@zim.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <49F6C7A1.6070708@FreeBSD.org> References: <aa9f273a8313c6436e76fa9f5d587ef4.squirrel@webmail.kovesdan.org> <20090427183836.GA10793@zim.MIT.EDU> <49F5FE45.2090101@freebsd.org> <20090427193326.GA7654@britannica.bec.de> <20090427194904.GA11137@zim.MIT.EDU> <49F6C7A1.6070708@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Another idea to consider. Are all of our utilities wchar-clean? What > about library functions? (regex is surely not) Do we lack any important > utility or library? (we still do lack iconv and gettext and what > else...?) What about standards, like C99 wchar functions? Is there > something missing? What about POSIX if it has something related? > Personally, I think that these are more important questions than support > of some extremely rare languages. It's worth to consider how to deal > with them later but the basic problems need a higher priority. There's a fair number of utilities that are not locale-aware, and we don't have any of the *_l() functions in POSIX.1-2008. There are also some second-order issues in libraries, e.g., they assume multibyte encodings don't contain embedded low ASCII characters, or they are far less efficient than they could be. > I hope my work will be useful for the community. Btw, I suspected that > you might be interested in this and I wrote a mail personally to you > when I was looking for a mentor. Then I didn't resend it because > delphij@ volunteered to be my mentor. Have you ever got that mail? If > you find this an interesting project your comments, review, etc. are > still highly welcome. I did reply on 3/19, basically to say that I'd be happy to offer advice, but it's not really my area.
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