Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:00:11 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Thimble Smith" <tim@mysql.com>, Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wide-char support and libc Message-ID: <v04210100b54856158399@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20000517024159.B88068@threads.polyesthetic.msg> References: <39221780.C18E585@cvzoom.net> <20000517024159.B88068@threads.polyesthetic.msg>
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At 2:41 AM -0400 5/17/00, Thimble Smith wrote:
>On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 11:52:32PM -0400, Donn Miller wrote:
> > Anyone like the idea of adding wide char support to our libc? Maybe
> > we could port it over from {Net,Open}BSD or BSDi. This would add the
> > header file <wctype.h>, etc.
>
>There's a mailing list, freebsd-i18n, that seems to be very active
>regarding this topic (the archives show 0 posts).
>
>The latest I found on it (searching the archives) is this:
>
>http://www.whizkidtech.net/i18n/wc/
As was recently posted to freebsd-java:
There's a "wchar" implementation available on
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd/FreeBSD/wcs-19990606.tar.gz
I have tried it myself and it works as expected, meaning
that I was able to successfully link a Motif program.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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