From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 8 11:11:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0613637B407 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:08:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@ringworld.nanolink.com) Received: (qmail 54114 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Jun 2001 18:06:35 -0000 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 21:06:35 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Stefan Hoffmeister Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wide character support - wchar.h? Message-ID: <20010608210635.A54030@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Stefan Hoffmeister , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4b32itsv8s5fepl1o6d1i3n4fg3r5s362a@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4b32itsv8s5fepl1o6d1i3n4fg3r5s362a@4ax.com>; from freebsd-ml@Econos.de on Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:51:08PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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