From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 28 22:25:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F363106564A for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:25:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zim.MIT.EDU (ZIM.MIT.EDU [18.95.3.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C8B8FC17 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:25:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zim.MIT.EDU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zim.MIT.EDU (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n3SMQTYL017936; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:26:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from das@localhost) by zim.MIT.EDU (8.14.3/8.14.2/Submit) id n3SMQT8i017935; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:26:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:26:29 -0400 From: David Schultz To: Gabor Kovesdan Message-ID: <20090428222629.GA17881@zim.MIT.EDU> Mail-Followup-To: Gabor Kovesdan , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20090427183836.GA10793@zim.MIT.EDU> <49F5FE45.2090101@freebsd.org> <20090427193326.GA7654@britannica.bec.de> <20090427194904.GA11137@zim.MIT.EDU> <49F6C7A1.6070708@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49F6C7A1.6070708@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:25:55 -0000 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.