From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 20 6:43:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx.globalone.ru (mx.globalone.ru [194.84.254.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF51152BF for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 06:43:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.voropay@globalone.ru) Received: from hq.globalone.ru (hq.globalone.ru [172.16.38.1]) by mx.globalone.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA11765 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:42:16 +0400 Received: from host205.spb.in.rosprin.ru ([172.17.13.205]) by hq.globalone.ru (Netscape Messaging Server 3.5) with SMTP id 168; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:42:21 +0400 Message-ID: <01ca01bed2b6$0b235ba0$cd0d11ac@host205.spb.in.rosprin.ru> Reply-To: "Alexander Voropay" From: "Alexander Voropay" To: Cc: Subject: Re: glibc Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:44:11 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Has anybody done a port of glibc to FreeBSD? (I'm not interested in >> opinions about how poor it is or how evil the FSF are; I'm only asking to >> avoid duplicate work. Thanks.) > >Perhaps if you explain what it is you're trying to accomplish, there might >be an easier option than porting *shudder* glibc? glibc has better POSIX locale and I18N / L10N support : - localedef(1) and locale(1) utilities - nl_langinfo(3) XPG-4 function - gettext built-in into glibc -- -=AV=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message