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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:57:04 +0200
From:      "Konrad Jankowski" <lichave@gmail.com>
To:        "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@north-winds.org>
Cc:        Alexander Churanov <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com>, freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unicode-based FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <716a8d5f0808290157v6f561908r98ec10b1ca09aa9e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1219868153.6962.37.camel@habakkuk.aloha.tallye.com>
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Loren M. Lang <lorenl@north-winds.org> wrote:
> The third area that FreeBSD might need some improvement is in libc.  I
> am less familiar with this area so my information may be incorrect.
> Basic locale and Unicode support exists in libc, but more advanced
> functionality like character classes and collating needs work.  The
> commands mklocale and colldef are used to create the appropriate binary
> data files from source and, if I remember correctly, used a format which
> is too simplified to fully support a modern Unicode specification.

The collation and colldef are being worked on right now, and the work
is almost finished. Link to my wiki with project status, if somebody
is interested:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/KonradJankowski/Collation



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