Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:06:32 +0400 From: Dmitrij Tejblum <tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru> To: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/13364: Patch to wc(1) for Unix 98 compliance. Message-ID: <199908251606.UAA96187@arc.hq.cti.ru> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:40:02 PDT." <199908251540.IAA02387@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> > Since the manpage is read in the context of FreeBSD, the distinction > > between bytes and characters is weird. I'd leave that change out. Good morning. Characters and bytes are different things in the context of FreeBSD. See euc(4), utf2(4), sjis(4), and big5(4). > > While your change is cool now, you're putting worms in a can that > > someone's going to have to open up one day when we use two-byte > > characters. :) Some people do use multibyte characters right now. You can write some texts with multibyte characters under www/ and doc/ (Japanese and Chinese), and some programs that support multibyte characters better than usual in ports/japanese, etc. Dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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