From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 17 14:26:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA08684 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:26:43 -0700 Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA08674 ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:26:33 -0700 Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA11534 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Wed, 18 Oct 1995 01:25:19 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Wed, 18 Oct 95 01:25:18 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by ache.dialup.demos.ru (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA02326; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 00:24:26 +0300 To: Terry Lambert , "Garrett A. Wollman" Cc: core@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@critter.tfs.com References: <9510172015.AA03876@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199510172038.NAA28274@phaeton.artisoft.com> <9510172112.AA04040@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <9510172112.AA04040@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>; from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Tue, 17 Oct 1995 17:12:00 -0400 Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 00:24:26 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.40 FreeBSD] From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: Locale stuff: call for conclusion. Lines: 30 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1320 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <9510172112.AA04040@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Garrett A. Wollman writes: >< 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. It is equal to my 1) expect I plan to block loading runes locale at software level, if someone ever tries. As I say, each static binaries will bloats by unused runic code in this case, its about 24K. P.S. Personally I don't care of bloating, but it was one of the strongest arguments against my locale hack, so where is non-bloating community? (just wonder :-). -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849