From owner-freebsd-standards Fri Mar 1 0:59:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5225737B417 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mike@localhost) by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g218rmd15711; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 03:53:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 03:53:48 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: "Tim J. Robbins" Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wc -m option Message-ID: <20020301035348.B7544@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20020203230758.A19532@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020203230758.A19532@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au>; from tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au on Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:07:58PM +1100 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Late reply, prompted by other wc(1) patch.] Tim J. Robbins writes: > This patch adds the SUSV2 -m option to wc to handle multibyte characters. > Since libc is missing iswspace() from , I've had to use isspace(), > which doesn't detect some wide space characters. For example, the Japanese > locale given in euc(4): I think we should wait on this until we have the proper libc support (which hopefully won't take too long). Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message