Dear all,
I'm curious about the state of multi-byte locale support for BSD.
In particular, it would be nice if you could answer some of the
following questions:
- Does/will the BSD C library support UTF-8 locales, such that
the standard C functions mbsrtowcs and wcsrtombs convert between
UTF-8 and UCS-4?
- Does/will BSD define a policy that for all locales the values
in wchar_t shall always be encoded according to ISO 10646 only, which
the ISO C 99 standard says should be signaled to software by defining
the C macro __STDC_ISO_10646__ ?
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/ISO-C-FDIS.1999-04.txt>
- Does/will BSD support the C library function nl_langinfo(CODESET)
and the command line call "locale charmap" to determine the name
of the current locale encoding?
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/langinfo.h.html>
- Does/will BSD support the C library function iconv good enough such
that is passes the test suite in libiconv?
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/iconv.html>
<http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html>
The answer is yes for all three for Linux since glibc 2.2, but I wonder
what the status/plan is for *BSD here.
I'd like to summarize answers on
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
Cheers,
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
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