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To: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
cc: HOSOKAWA Tatsumi <hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp>, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no,
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Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs YOU. :-) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:55:31 +0900."
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 02:45:45 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> It's not just the msg database.
> 
> I think the last time this was brought up you were taken aback by the
> wc_foo() functions to handle wide-chars.  If you want to have a single
> source base that handles English, Japanese or whatever; whoever maintains
> the code will have to accept these functions and or equivalent and get
> used to having them around.

I think I can live with that for a product which is hopefully
soon to be end-of-lifed.

					Jordan