From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 16 20:26:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA07027 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:26:44 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA07019 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:26:39 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA26486; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:21:36 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510170321.UAA26486@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP To: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:21:36 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, kaleb@x.org In-Reply-To: from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Oct 17, 95 06:05:01 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 841 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >That's too bad. I guess you will have to properly localize in order > >to use software, then, instead of taking advantage of 8859-x formulation > >rules to get 90% soloutions. Like you'd be able to do if the standard > >you chose to use met those guidelines. > > I can't see why KOI8-R charset needs to follow 8859-x rules > when setlocale() called, it simple becomes loaded as is. If it did already, then this discussion would be over, since the change wouldn't be upgrading Western Europe's C locale and not upgrading yours. It seems that that is the real problem: equal access, not really that you honestly believe that the hack should remain and the code should not have to be fixed. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.