From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 10 18:56:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00887 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:56:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00878 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:56:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA00715; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:56:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd000682; Thu Dec 10 19:56:14 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA12902; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:56:10 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199812110256.TAA12902@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Wchar support in FreeBSD To: kaleb@ics.com (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 02:56:10 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <366D9BB8.CB2D98FF@ics.com> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Dec 8, 98 04:35:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Is there any 3rd party libraries that support the 'wchar' stuff? > > > Do a mailing list search on "wchar.h functions from Solaris/Linux". There > > > was a thread where Terry claimed that XView 3.2 contained wchar support. > > > > Thanks for the pointer! > > Libc has the basic stuff: wcslen, mbstowcs, wcstombs, etc. > > The rest, e.g. wcscat, wcscpy, etc, you can roll your own on -- there's > no rocket science involved. I sent a copy of the XWchar.tar.Z code to Nate under seperate cover. I also pointed him to the OMRON corporation patches, which add needed modifications for Japanese and other multibyte languages. Since it is very hard to find this, I will duplicate the pointer here: http://ftp.umu.se/pub/unix/src/X11R5_ftp/contrib-fixes/Xwchar/ Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message