From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 17 14:12:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA08317 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:12:29 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA08307 ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:12:23 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA04040; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 17:12:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 17:12:00 -0400 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9510172112.AA04040@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman), ache@astral.msk.su, core@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@critter.tfs.com Subject: Re: Locale stuff: call for conclusion. In-Reply-To: <199510172038.NAA28274@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <9510172015.AA03876@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199510172038.NAA28274@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk < said: > Why do you dislike the #ifdef XPG4? > It seems the sane soloution for code transitioning... the code can't > all be transitioned to runic support at once, and runic support is > less than useful at present in any case because of ISO 2022 and > shift-JIS not quite fitting XPG/4 in any case. I think the most sensible thing to do is to simply say ``multibyte locales are not supported'' and leave the code in for someone who actually uses such locales to find any problems. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant