Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:38:58 -0800 (PST) From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net> To: Tim Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unexpand -t option Message-ID: <20020218183522.D67464-100000@gateway.posi.net> In-Reply-To: <20020218141415.A33138@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Tim Robbins wrote:
> This patch adds the -t option to unexpand, makes it use getopt instead of
> rolling its own option parser, and just generally cleans it up and simplifies
> it.
>
> Now that it no longer buffers output itself, it should be trivial to convert
> to support multibyte encoding: make `ch' in tabify() a rune_t, use
> fgetrune() and fputrune() instead of getchar()/putchar(). Should I make
> this change? (The standard suggests it should handle multibyte encodings
> when LC_CTYPE specifies one)
>
> Comments?
>
I cannot comment on the patch, but please don't introduce BSD-specific rune
references. David Cross and I are working on flushing out wide character
support which I would prefer to use as it is part of the C standard and the
Single Unix specification. Thanks,
Kelly
kbyanc@{posi.net,FreeBSD.org}
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