From owner-freebsd-standards Fri Mar 1 11:38:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9174137B400; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:38:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from gateway.posi.net ([12.236.90.177]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020301193843.FEWZ2951.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@gateway.posi.net>; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 19:38:43 +0000 Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by gateway.posi.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g21Jcgt13928; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:38:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) X-Authentication-Warning: gateway.posi.net: kbyanc owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:38:41 -0800 (PST) From: Kelly Yancey To: Mike Barcroft Cc: "Tim J. Robbins" , Subject: Re: wc -m option In-Reply-To: <20020301035348.B7544@espresso.q9media.com> Message-ID: <20020301113727.P13868-100000@gateway.posi.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Mike Barcroft wrote: > [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). > 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} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message