From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 17 7: 0: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1126E37B638 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 07:00:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA172606; Wed, 17 May 2000 09:59:49 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000517024159.B88068@threads.polyesthetic.msg> References: <39221780.C18E585@cvzoom.net> <20000517024159.B88068@threads.polyesthetic.msg> Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:00:11 -0400 To: "Thimble Smith" , Donn Miller From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Wide-char support and libc Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 , 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. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message