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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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