Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:21:52 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, K?vesd?n G?bor <gabor@t-hosting.hu>, Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Subject: Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo] Message-ID: <48576610.9080808@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080617004647.GA16546@nagual.pp.ru> References: <485453F2.60507@FreeBSD.org> <4854BC29.3060507@FreeBSD.org> <4854C96A.1080603@aueb.gr> <48556AAD.9010602@t-hosting.hu> <20080615212613.GA97326@nagual.pp.ru> <4855EDFE.3010708@FreeBSD.org> <86bq211rqw.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080617002224.GA16122@nagual.pp.ru> <20080617002808.GB16122@nagual.pp.ru> <20080617004647.GA16546@nagual.pp.ru>
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Andrey Chernov escribió: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:28:10AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > >> BSD grep is even not bothering to call setlocale(). I can't say is it can >> be simple healed by adding that call, some test suite run is needed. >> > > Quick source inspection reveals that BSD grep operates with single bytes > only (util.c) so big rewriting with mbrtowc() is needed. Adding > setlocale() only will makes it only useable with single byte locales, in > success case. > Sorry for the possibly silly question, but what we mean localization here in the case of grep? As far as I see, it works with wide chars, because the regex library is aware of those. What other aspect needs to be taken into account? In case of sort, I understarnd that it should explicitly handle wide characters due to the different alphabet of the different languages and yes, that seems to be a difficult task... Gábor
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