Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 00:57:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org> Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wide char support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906070054300.411-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <22191.928729127@coconut.itojun.org>
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On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: > > >> Is there anything in current that provides wide character support? I'm > >> messing around with document formatting, and I have to be involved with > >> wide character things. One example: wcscat(). It's not the only one, I > >> just need to know if it's in *any* library, and declared in any include > >> file. > > 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) Do you guys have any testable, even if it's not ready for prime time? I need wchar.h and the wcs* functions for a project for FreeBSD. You want me to have this, I think. David said he had something ready to play with (I think) but I haven't heard from him yet. As far as the list ... Urrr, I don't speak Japanese. I'm willing if someone would do the interpreting, but I better make it clear that my own interest is in document formatting, not on the Unicode support in and of itself, you understand? I want you guys to be able to use my stuff, but since I can't read it, I'll never use 16 bit characters myself. I think. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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