From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 12:32: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40C337B4D7; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:31:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eAMKVtM21483; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:31:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:31:55 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Ed Hall Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-I18N@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standard wchar_t functions missing Message-ID: <20001122123155.O18037@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200011222034.MAA12121@screech.weirdnoise.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011222034.MAA12121@screech.weirdnoise.com>; from edhall@weirdnoise.com on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:34:09PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Ed Hall [001122 12:28] wrote: > We have a senior developer at Yahoo! who is complaining about FreeBSD's > lack of support for wchar_t. In particular, the ISO/ANSI and UNIX98 > wide character functions are missing. This isn't the first time someone > has complained about this -- internationalization is extremely important > at Yahoo!, as you might guess. > > He wants to move his project to Linux for this and other reasons. > I don't think this will happen, but I hear the threat more and more, > and unlike most occasions there isn't a ready comeback. > > Now, I've done a bit of digging in the FreeBSD archives, and discovered > that Itojun and his group have announced that their support for wchar_t > is ready for integration. This was a month ago--has there been any > progress in getting this going? Anything I can do to speed the process? Give me a url to the patches? :) The funny thing is that over a year ago I could have sworn I saw people almost completeing this project. I'm going to dig around a bit and see what I can find. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message