Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:35:34 +0100 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uspoerlein@gmail.com> To: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.ORG>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.ORG>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svn commit: r189765 - in head: . lib/libc lib/libc/nls Message-ID: <20090316183534.GI1455@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <20090313182216.GA8844@zim.MIT.EDU> References: <200903131040.n2DAecSO061131@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903130910540.4522@thor.farley.org> <20090313182216.GA8844@zim.MIT.EDU>
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On Fri, 13.03.2009 at 14:22:16 -0400, David Schultz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009, Sean C. Farley wrote: > > Now, you only need to revive the BSD-licensed libiconv[1]. :) > [...] > > 1. http://people.freebsd.org/~bland/iconv-2.1.tar.gz > > I asked a few weeks ago on standards@ why we weren't using Citrus > iconv, which is what NetBSD uses, and seems to be in a somewhat > better state than this. It also provides various wide character > conversion routines that overlap with what tjr@ has already done > in FreeBSD, so we'd have to sort that out. And we'd have to sort > out a gazillion ports that want -liconv. I, for one, would love to see some iconv overlo^Wsupport in base. That way, I could teach calendar(1) to translate stuff to LC_CTYPE, right now the German calendar file is saved in Latin1 whereas I'm using UTF-8 terminals :/ Cheers, Ulrich Spörlein -- None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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