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Date:      Fri, 26 Jun 1998 17:49:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Castor Fu <castor@geocast.net>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GNU-Tar should be updated [Really I18n]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626174225.19016D-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980626083656.5560D-100000@geo.geocast.net>

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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


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