Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:04:21 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kent S. Gordon" <kgor@ksg.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wchar.h functions from Solaris/Linux Message-ID: <199809100004.TAA28949@soccer.ksg.com> In-Reply-To: <199809092241.PAA04776@usr02.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Wed, 9 Sep 1998 22:41:08 %2B0000 (GMT))
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>>>>> "tlambert" == Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
>> Anyone have non-GPL source for wchar.h (wide character string
>> functions) functions that will work on FreeBSD?
> What specifically do you need?
The actual functions I ned are wcscat,wcschr,wcscpy,wcslen, and
wcsncat. I guess I will just rewrite the functions myself.
> Sun released the source code for a full XPG/3 implementation
> when thet released the sources for X/View. The code should be
> available in the "contrib" section of any X mirror.
I looked at ftp.x.org and downloaded the xview3.2 sources. I did not see
anything related to wchar.h stuff. Do you have any idea what name it
would be under.
> Actually, last time this issue came up, there was a disagreement
> about sizeof(wchar_t). Some people wanted it to be 16 bits so
> all the code out there would work, and some people wanted it to
> be 32 bits so that all the code out there would break...
> Terry Lambert
> terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own
> and not those of my present or previous employers.
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