From owner-freebsd-i18n Wed Mar 21 12:35: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Received: from gelemna.org (cc466188-a.pinev1.in.home.com [24.17.49.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1090B37B749; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:34:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.org) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by gelemna.org (8.11.3/8.9.3) id f2LKTqQ47278; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:29:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.org) To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , "Michael C . Wu" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, thinker@branda.to Subject: Re: Request for review [Re: /bin/ls patch round #2] References: <20010319195438.A43266@peorth.iteration.net> <20010320002043.A46115@peorth.iteration.net> <20010320065321.E63933668@203.141.142.186.user.am.il24.net> <20010320005919.B46871@peorth.iteration.net> <20010320073058.D26883668@203.141.142.186.user.am.il24.net> <20010320171736.L22505@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20010321035805.C743F3668@203.141.142.186.user.am.il24.net> <20010321152738.B12397@nagual.pp.ru> From: Don Croyle Date: 21 Mar 2001 15:29:52 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: "Andrey A. Chernov"'s message of "Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:27:39 +0300" Message-ID: <86snk6g91b.fsf@emerson.gelemna.org> Lines: 14 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Andrey A. Chernov" writes: > I fully agree. wctype.h and isw*() must be implemented first instead of > hacking or using private interface (like runes) in userland program. > It will be easy to implement them over existen ctype mechanism masking > runes with wchar_t. Any takers? If we're not going to bring in CITRUS, I'd prefer to see runes junked as an unnecessary layer of abstraction. Doing so would break backwards compatibility for locales, but I think we're going to end up doing that eventually anyway. -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message