Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 21:06:35 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Stefan Hoffmeister <freebsd-ml@Econos.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wide character support - wchar.h? Message-ID: <20010608210635.A54030@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <4b32itsv8s5fepl1o6d1i3n4fg3r5s362a@4ax.com>; from freebsd-ml@Econos.de on Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:51:08PM %2B0200 References: <4b32itsv8s5fepl1o6d1i3n4fg3r5s362a@4ax.com>
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:51:08PM +0200, Stefan Hoffmeister wrote: > > What are the status of / plans for support of select wide character > routines, such as the ones declared in wchar.h? > > Particularly, I am looking for wcsoll, towupper, and towlower - IOW, the > whole barrage of wide character transformation and collation :-) > > I haven't found anything conclusive in the mailing list archives. > > Has anyone tried to "fake" support for these functions via iconv > operations from wide characters to the locale charset, performing a > "normal" toupper / tolower / strcoll, and then transforming back? > > I am not certain whether these two transformations would be lossy or not. I guess I should leave the answers to someone more familiar with this than I am (next to none), but I do believe that Takuya SHIOZAKI <tshiozak@FreeBSD.org> is currently working on multibyte support in -current's libc. G'luck, Peter -- Do you think anybody has ever had *precisely this thought* before? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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