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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:31:52 +0300
From:      Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org>
To:        The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org>, freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www progress.html
Message-ID:  <20020610103152.B22945@ark.cris.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020608165948.GD292@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx>; from anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx on Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:59:48PM -0400
References:  <20020531033029.435CA17407@usw4.freebsd.org> <20020606192159.A22774@phantom.cris.net> <20020608165948.GD292@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx>

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hi,

As I mentioned in previous e-mail builtin libintl is coming. But
actually by my original letter I tried to take attention that
FreeBSD has quite enough support of i18n. And orienting to 3rd party
projects isn't way to go.

On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:59:48PM -0400, The Anarcat wrote:
> On Thu Jun 06, 2002 at 07:21:59PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > Just took a look and have a question: Why 
> > Multilanguage support milstone is referencing to
> > Citrus project ? Citrus is NetBSD based project.
> > Or correctly to say FreeBSD based, but NetBSD oriented.
> 
> NetBSD also features a gettext replacement, which we don't have.
>  
> > FreeBSD has enough infrastructure to i18n support And
> > actually has better multilanguage support comparing to
> > Net and Open BSDs (at least for single-byte charsets)
> 
> Do you really mean using catgets(3)? I find it evil.
> 
> A.
> 
> -- 
> The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to
> lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores
> the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led
> them into it in the first place. - Douglas Adams (1952-2001)



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