Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:23:13 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Ulrich =?utf-8?b?U3DDg8K2cmxlaW4=?= <uspoerlein@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: svn commit: r189765 - in head: . lib/libc lib/libc/nls Message-ID: <20090317132313.16835qaktvcvhf8c@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20090316183534.GI1455@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> References: <200903131040.n2DAecSO061131@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903130910540.4522@thor.farley.org> <20090313182216.GA8844@zim.MIT.EDU> <20090316183534.GI1455@roadrunner.spoerlein.net>
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Quoting Ulrich Sp=C3=83=C2=B6rlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com> (from Mon, 16 Mar = 2009 =20 19:35:34 +0100): > On Fri, 13.03.2009 at 14:22:16 -0400, David Schultz wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009, Sean C. Farley wrote: >> > Now, you only need to revive the BSD-licensed libiconv[1]. :) >> [...] >> > 1. http://people.freebsd.org/~bland/iconv-2.1.tar.gz >> >> I asked a few weeks ago on standards@ why we weren't using Citrus >> iconv, which is what NetBSD uses, and seems to be in a somewhat >> better state than this. It also provides various wide character >> conversion routines that overlap with what tjr@ has already done >> in FreeBSD, so we'd have to sort that out. And we'd have to sort >> out a gazillion ports that want -liconv. > > I, for one, would love to see some iconv overlo^Wsupport in base. That > way, I could teach calendar(1) to translate stuff to LC_CTYPE, right now > the German calendar file is saved in Latin1 whereas I'm using UTF-8 > terminals :/ Anorther approach would be to make calendar DTRT with UTF-8... one =20 step into this direction (german UTF-8 catalogs) is at =20 http://svnweb.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/user/netchild/calendar-utf8/ Bye, Alexander. --=20 Law of Probable Dispersal: =09Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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