Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:42:46 -0400 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system Message-ID: <20090428024246.GA12887@zim.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20090427200821.GA6665@britannica.bec.de> References: <aa9f273a8313c6436e76fa9f5d587ef4.squirrel@webmail.kovesdan.org> <20090427183836.GA10793@zim.MIT.EDU> <49F5FE45.2090101@freebsd.org> <20090427193326.GA7654@britannica.bec.de> <20090427194904.GA11137@zim.MIT.EDU> <20090427200821.GA6665@britannica.bec.de>
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:49:04PM -0400, David Schultz wrote: > > ...but isn't this moot at present because there are no > > widely-accepted encodings that include characters that > > aren't supported by UCS-4? Citrus doesn't seem to support > > any such encodings in any case. > > "Just" using UCS-4 not necessarily buys you the desired affect. > Keep in mind that UCS-4 is still a variable width encoding, as soon as > you factor combining characters and some other interesting parts in. This is true, but unfortunately C99 wasn't really designed to support combining characters. I don't understand how this relates to the present discussion.
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