Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 17:17:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: castor@geocast.net, kline@tera.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU-Tar should be updated [Really I18n] Message-ID: <199806270017.RAA08729@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626174225.19016D-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from John Fieber at "Jun 26, 98 05:49:03 pm"
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According to John Fieber: > On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Castor Fu wrote: > > > What is FreeBSD's stance on Internationalization? I remember a while > > back that someone was working on porting DCE to FreeBSD & Linux but > > I think one of the blocking points for FreeBSD was I18N. I presume > > that means there's a Unix95 interface which we're not supporting? > > I notice that we do have catopen, catgets, etc. > > We are missing pretty much all of addenum 1 to the ANSI C > standard which specifies wide character versions of most standard > library functions. See http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/na1.html for > details. > > I made a very brief venture into implementing this stuff (while > fiddling with a Unicode locale), but I just don't have the time > to work on it. I will gladly send code to anyone who wants to > pick it up. > > -john > At Tera (using 4.4 and NetBSD mostly) we're going with Unicode. My work in internationalizing the utilities set ought to drop into the FreeBSD utility directories with virtually no mods. If the Net or FreeBSD Core groups are interested in my personal versions, I'll be waiting to hear. John, would this fit into Terry Lambert's Unicode FS effort finished last year?? I think this is long overdue. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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