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Date:      Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:57:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Frank Chen Hsiung Chan <frankch@life.nthu.edu.tw>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Localizing FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980107145157.13861H-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980108012356.56984@life.nthu.edu.tw>

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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Frank Chen Hsiung Chan wrote:

>   After what I have done, I found that there aren't much 
>   of the programs localized. We have xpg4 stuff in FreeBSD,
>   but only a few programs (is there any?) have utilized 
>   that code. Is there any plan to make FreeBSD utilize
>   more the xpg4 code?

It has been said in these lists that bunches of things break if
>8bit bit locales are used, which is why the >8bit stuff was
split off into libxpg4.  Search in the mailing list archives for
xpg4 for details.

What I have not seen is a description of what breaks or what
needs to be fixed.

-john




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