From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 26 15:50:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA19591 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 15:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA19526 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 15:49:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfieber@indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA19380; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 17:49:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 17:49:03 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Castor Fu cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU-Tar should be updated [Really I18n] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Castor Fu wrote: > What is FreeBSD's stance on Internationalization? I remember a while > back that someone was working on porting DCE to FreeBSD & Linux but > I think one of the blocking points for FreeBSD was I18N. I presume > that means there's a Unix95 interface which we're not supporting? > I notice that we do have catopen, catgets, etc. We are missing pretty much all of addenum 1 to the ANSI C standard which specifies wide character versions of most standard library functions. See http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/na1.html for details. I made a very brief venture into implementing this stuff (while fiddling with a Unicode locale), but I just don't have the time to work on it. I will gladly send code to anyone who wants to pick it up. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message