Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 17:12:00 -0400 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman), ache@astral.msk.su, core@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@critter.tfs.com Subject: Re: Locale stuff: call for conclusion. Message-ID: <9510172112.AA04040@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199510172038.NAA28274@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <9510172015.AA03876@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199510172038.NAA28274@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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<<On Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:38:16 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said: > Why do you dislike the #ifdef XPG4? > It seems the sane soloution for code transitioning... the code can't > all be transitioned to runic support at once, and runic support is > less than useful at present in any case because of ISO 2022 and > shift-JIS not quite fitting XPG/4 in any case. I think the most sensible thing to do is to simply say ``multibyte locales are not supported'' and leave the code in for someone who actually uses such locales to find any problems. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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