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From: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "Kevin D. Wooten" <kevin@wooten.com>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Wide Character Support
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:38:05AM -0700, Kevin D. Wooten wrote:

> I am trying to figure out what wide character support
> is available for FreeBSD; I am in need of the i/o
> routines (i.e. swprintf). If they are not available
> standard ( which they dont appear to be ) is there a
> patch or a library that can provide this support??

We do plan to support wide-character stdio in the (hopefully near) future.
The alternatives are to use part or all of a different libc: GNU, NetBSD, etc.

These links might be helpful:
http://citrus.bsdclub.org/
http://citrus.bsdclub.org/xpg4dl/

(I don't think their FreeBSD stuff is up-to-date)


Tim

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