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Date:      Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:12:54 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?R8OhYm9yIEvDtnZlc2TDoW4=?= <gabor@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, "Sean C. Farley" <scf@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r189765 - in head: . lib/libc lib/libc/nls
Message-ID:  <9bbcef730903131312s1ecf48a6uf80424bb0a4dbfba@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49BA7E01.50000@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200903131040.n2DAecSO061131@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903130910540.4522@thor.farley.org> <49BA7E01.50000@FreeBSD.org>

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2009/3/13 G=C3=A1bor K=C3=B6vesd=C3=A1n <gabor@freebsd.org>:
>
>> Nice! =C2=A0I need to find some time to learn how to use NLS.
>>
>> Now, you only need to revive the BSD-licensed libiconv[1]. =C2=A0:) =C2=
=A0I am
>> kidding; =C2=A0I do not want to start adding more stuff to your plate. =
=C2=A0Thank you
>> for strengthening FreeBSD's i18n support.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, how does enabling NLS in libc interact with the
>> devel/gettext port?
>
> Well, it's not a bad idea, actually I'm thinking of generating some more
> catalogs automatically but the problem is that we don't have iconv in the
> base system. For example, we could easily make a hu_HU.UTF-8 catalog from
> hu_HU.ISO8859-2 by just converting the encoding of the catalog file. And =
the
> same applies to a bunch of locales...

This only glances the original topic, but Konrad (konrad@,
konrad.jankowski@bluemedia.pl) was doing UTF-8 collation support and
it appears that the project is very close to completion but for a few
months now Konrad is busy with RL stuff and has postponed it. Maybe
you could benefit from his work and also bring it in?



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