From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 7 11:58:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA04068 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:58:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA04046 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:57:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfieber@indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA27469; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:57:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:57:10 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Frank Chen Hsiung Chan cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Localizing FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <19980108012356.56984@life.nthu.edu.tw> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Frank Chen Hsiung Chan wrote: > After what I have done, I found that there aren't much > of the programs localized. We have xpg4 stuff in FreeBSD, > but only a few programs (is there any?) have utilized > that code. Is there any plan to make FreeBSD utilize > more the xpg4 code? It has been said in these lists that bunches of things break if >8bit bit locales are used, which is why the >8bit stuff was split off into libxpg4. Search in the mailing list archives for xpg4 for details. What I have not seen is a description of what breaks or what needs to be fixed. -john