From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 21 23:10:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D45631065788 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:10:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.mypc.hu (server.mypc.hu [87.229.73.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E35A8FC23 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.mypc.hu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981AA14DA5F2; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:53:22 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at server.mypc.hu Received: from server.mypc.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by server.mypc.hu (server.mypc.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 9U96Fbzxp+dF; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:53:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (catv-89-132-179-104.catv.broadband.hu [89.132.179.104]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D0CEF14DA5E9; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:53:16 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B81B95B.9090304@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:53:15 +0100 From: Gabor Kovesdan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; es-ES; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Sonnenberger References: <20100221222811.GA10638@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <20100221222811.GA10638@britannica.bec.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 and wchar_t X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:10:45 -0000 > > Contrary to NetBSD, FreeBSD still lacks iconv(3) > support in base, so the usual approach of converting to the locale > charset and using mbtowc etc. is not possible. > Probably, we are near to get our own iconv(3) for base. Current TODO is: - style(9) cleanups - make a working patch for HEAD; atm it is only possible to build it independently but it should go into libc - exp-run by portmgr So hopefully, we will be able to change to the usual approach soon. -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: gabor@FreeBSD.org .:|:. gabor@kovesdan.org WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org