From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 18 20:42: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from c000.snv.cp.net (h002.c000.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E777D37B40D for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:41:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 25976 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2002 20:41:58 -0700 Received: from 209.228.32.74 (HELO mail.wooten.com.criticalpath.net) by smtp.wooten.com (209.228.32.66) with SMTP; 18 Jun 2002 20:41:58 -0700 X-Sent: 19 Jun 2002 03:41:58 GMT Received: from [24.56.2.20] by mail.wooten.com with HTTP; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tjr@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: kevin@wooten.com Subject: Re: Wide Character Support X-Sent-From: kevin@wooten.com Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:41:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Web Mail 5.0.10-14 Message-Id: <20020618204158.16137.h010.c000.wm@mail.wooten.com.criticalpath.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am very interested in contributing in this area. Maybe you could point me to a starting place or person; as I have never contributed to FBSD as of yet. On Wed, 19 June 2002, Tim Robbins wrote > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message