From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 6 21:34:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rpi.edu (mumble.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.8.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D4A156FD for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 21:34:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crossd@cs.rpi.edu) Received: from cs.rpi.edu (monica.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.7.2]) by cs.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA82963; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 00:33:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906070433.AAA82963@cs.rpi.edu> To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino Cc: "David E. Cross" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, crossd@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Re: wide char support In-Reply-To: Message from Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino of "Mon, 07 Jun 1999 13:18:47 +0900." <22191.928729127@coconut.itojun.org> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 00:33:29 -0400 From: "David E. Cross" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > There are several Japanese people working on stateful multibyte char > support. Existing codebase like glibc only supports stateless > multibyte char. People using iso-2022 variants (Japan, Korea, > China, you name it) need stateful multibyte char support. > We have some code fragment used in various software packages > like multilingual vi or multilingual schedule management tool, and > we would like to clean up those to fit into src/lib/whatever. > I'll be talking about this issue a bit in my presentation at Usenix/ > Freenix99 (titled "multilingual vi") so come to presentation > room or catch me somewhere in the conference site. > > (again, there's language barrier problem... I think we should sort > it out. I believe the best way is to ban Japanese-language mailing > list for the project, but other volunteers may have some trouble) Alas I will not be at Usenix. I do hope to be able to attend FreeBSDcon'99. I think both of our work is valuable. We need both statefull and stateless I18N support; because there is source that uses both. Language has been a problem, but it is good to see we have some liasons bridging that gap to keep us from replicating efforts and stepping on toes and emotions. -- David Cross | email: crossd@cs.rpi.edu Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, | Ph: 518.276.2860 Department of Computer Science | Fax: 518.276.4033 I speak only for myself. | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message