Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 15:11:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <199510162211.PAA25592@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199510160028.UAA06809@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Oct 15, 95 08:28:36 pm
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> Expo follows RFC 821/822 to the letter. It's not convenient, but it does > blindly adhere to the rules. Everyone else in the world seems to be > overlooking the rules, mostly it seems because it's inconvenient to > to follow the rules set out in the RFCs. Strongly agreed. > Along the same line, it'd be really convenient if the default chartype > table had its right side populated for ISO8859-1 so that broken tools > could still manage to do the right thing most of the time. My major premise in this whole discussion is that the bogus code in crt0.o is a result of trying to correct the C locale deficiencies without actually correcting the C locale. It is a kludge on a bug, not a bugfix. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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