Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:38:41 -0800 (PST) From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>, <freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: wc -m option Message-ID: <20020301113727.P13868-100000@gateway.posi.net> In-Reply-To: <20020301035348.B7544@espresso.q9media.com>
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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> [Late reply, prompted by other wc(1) patch.]
>
> Tim J. Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> writes:
> > This patch adds the SUSV2 -m option to wc to handle multibyte characters.
> > Since libc is missing iswspace() from <wctype.h>, 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).
>
Please wait. I have patches in my local tree that properly implement -m
(mostly derived from NetBSD). However, I have not checked them in yet because
I'm still working on importing NetBSD's wide character support to match.
Thanks,
Kelly
kbyanc@{posi.net,FreeBSD.org}
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