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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:36:48 +0800
From:      Jing-Tang Keith Jang <jtjang@gcn.net.tw>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question about derivered version of FreeBSD (fwd)
Message-ID:  <20000322133647.C511@phantom.ethome.net.tw>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.93.1000320030533.21916A-100000@aries.ece.utexas.edu>
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On 03/20/00, Michael Chin-yuan Wu wrote:
> The only "base system" that CFE ever modifies
> is the ufs/ffs/ part to include a hackish patch
> for 16-bit character.  I do not recall seeing any
> efforts in the "modification of the C lib level".
> -TW simply does not have the resources to do so.

IIRC, the only patches in CFE deal with Big5 filenames
in FAT32 and Joliet fs.  These includes Unicode<->Big5
tables, and filename conversion patches.

ycheng <ycheng@freebsd.sinica.edu.tw> has some alternative
ideas in libc level.  They can be found at
http://freebsd.sinica.edu.tw/mail-list_archie/, Big5 mails
though.

> Regarding the kernel patch for 16-bit, I will
> *attempt* to make a clean modification for FFS
> as my senior project.  It should support unicode
> and arbitrary character sets.  Hopefully, that
> would be enough to get us through the time until
> HPUFS comes into the base system. 

Maybe you should do that in VFS layer. :)

> Much of the CFE is already in /usr/ports/chinese/*.
> -TW has an "outta-port" that provides beta-level
> ports for /usr/ports/chinese.  However, I think that
> many i18n users would be happy to see that Keith Jang
> has successfully patched netscape's menu into Chinese.

It's wonderful to see a fully functional L10N Netscape,
especially more stable than running L10N Netscape under
Linux. :)



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