From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Aug 25 9: 7:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from arc.hq.cti.ru (arc.hq.cti.ru [195.34.40.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51EEA15AB0 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:07:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru) Received: from arc.hq.cti.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arc.hq.cti.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA96187; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:06:33 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru) Message-Id: <199908251606.UAA96187@arc.hq.cti.ru> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/13364: Patch to wc(1) for Unix 98 compliance. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:40:02 PDT." <199908251540.IAA02387@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:06:32 +0400 From: Dmitrij Tejblum Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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