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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:07:46 +0800
From:      "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com>
To:        "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unicode/UTF-8
Message-ID:  <6eb82e0703090707w2d14ad80o80ec89694824ff18@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060707141326.GG21006@linwhf.opal.com>
References:  <20060707141326.GG21006@linwhf.opal.com>

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On 7/7/06, J.R. Oldroyd <fbsd@opal.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> In a few days' time I will submit the SWIDTH0 patches to
> mklocale/UTF-8.src and to hexdump/conv.c, posted here a couple of
> weeks ago, for committing.
>
> If anyone who's downloaded and tried them has any comments, the
> next day or so would be a good time to email me.  I'm particularly
> looking for feedback that I didn't inadvertently list any
> non-zero-width characters as zero-width, and also that I didn't
> miss any that are zero-width chars.
>
> Links to those patches once more, are here:
>
> http://opal.com/freebsd/unicode.html#lcctype
> http://opal.com/freebsd/unicode.html#hexdump
>
> In other related news, work is progressing on updating ncurses in
> the base system to support wide chars, and work is also in progress
> on addressing some of the issues noted for nvi.

ncurses 5.6 and ncursesw is in the 7.x base now. Speaking of nvi,
I roughly checked the port. It seems that nvi-devel requires libiconv
for Unicode support.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan



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