From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 14:54:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.cybercable.fr (d217.dhcp212-126.cybercable.fr [212.198.126.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5730E37B71A for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:54:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mux@qualys.com) Received: (from mux@localhost) by nebula.cybercable.fr (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f1RMrhb03155; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:53:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mux) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:53:42 +0100 From: Maxime Henrion To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: "Michael C . Wu" Subject: Re: talk(1) patch to allow 8bits characters Message-ID: <20010227235342.H345@nebula.cybercable.fr> References: <20010227205309.D345@nebula.cybercable.fr> <20010227162357.A89484@peorth.iteration.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010227162357.A89484@peorth.iteration.net>; from keichii@iteration.net on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:23:57PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael C . Wu wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:53:09PM +0100, Maxime Henrion scribbled: > isprint() has been broken for a long long time. Clive Lin > was about to fix it. I know that > we have been slacking, but please give us some time. Of course, this was only meant as a temporary solution, if isprint() is going to be fixed soon then it's probably useless. I would like to see this working for 4.3-RELEASE though, that's why I posted this patch. > Have you tried setenv LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 before starting > talk(1) and typing 8-bit chars? For most cases, this will work > for 8-bit chars. (Yes, it is _*BADLY*_ broken.) It unfortunately doesn't help here. > Sorry, the fact that you remove #include and the > check for LC_CTYPE makes this patch somewhat hard to accept. I can understand this. > However, I can accept a "talk-i18n" port that will go into the > ports temporarily until we fix isprint(). Would this be acceptable > for you? We can arrange to commit it as a port with you or I as > the maintainer. If you think it makes sense, I'd be glad to maintain such a port. Thanks, Maxime -- Don't be fooled by cheap finnish imitations ; BSD is the One True Code Key fingerprint = F9B6 1D5A 4963 331C 88FC CA6A AB50 1EF2 8CBE 99D6 Public Key : http://www.epita.fr/~henrio_m/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message