From owner-freebsd-standards Tue Mar 5 2:56: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B95C37B402 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 02:55:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from pobrecita.freebsd.ru (ache@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.pp.ru (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g25AtbYl077792; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:55:48 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by pobrecita.freebsd.ru (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g25AtW18077791; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:55:32 +0300 (MSK) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:55:30 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: "Tim J. Robbins" Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: iconv utility and Message-ID: <20020305105527.GB77673@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20020304182811.A29732@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020304085300.GA51200@nagual.pp.ru> <20020305145542.A30070@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020305145542.A30070@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 14:55:43 +1100, Tim J. Robbins wrote: > It's not the best way to do it, no. The standard doesn't require that all > character maps be stored as files in this format, but it does require that > iconv be able to load this type of file. Currently we are not compatible with POSIX on locale data formats in whole locale-related stuff, only on function calls, so primary goal at this moment is to make function calls compatibility. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message