Re: Future of locale, will there be POSIX.utf-8, what will it bring?

2022-01-11 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l at The Open Group
k...@keldix.com wrote in <20220110211651.ga2...@www5.open-std.org>: | |please also consider iso 30112, which is a full iso standard, |and written in posix style. it was taken from glibc, after glibc took \ |it from the iso 14652, |it has a number of categories in eccess of the posix oncs,

Re: Future of locale, will there be POSIX.utf-8, what will it bring?

2022-01-10 Thread k...@keldix.com via austin-group-l at The Open Group
please also consider iso 30112, which is a full iso standard, and written in posix style. it was taken from glibc, after glibc took it from the iso 14652, it has a number of categories in eccess of the posix oncs, including lc_paper. also note that for turkish a 'small i with dot' uppercases to

Re: Future of locale, will there be POSIX.utf-8, what will it bring?

2022-01-10 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
shwaresyst wrote, on 07 Jan 2022: > > The first Issue 8 draft is focusing, afaik, on adding the C1x changes and > Mantis Issue 8 tagged items. The changes to XBD 6, 7, etc., that will > formally add a POSIX UTF8 locale are to be part of the second, maybe third, > draft. This is why you don't

Re: Future of locale, will there be POSIX.utf-8, what will it bring?

2022-01-07 Thread shwaresyst via austin-group-l at The Open Group
C11 tried to add the minimal support for UTF-8, with the u8 string constant prefix, but in a broken manner. C2x provides what can be considered a fix for this, but does it in a mostly unusable way from the aspect of supporting multiple locale languages. That is why you don't see anything about

Re: Future of locale, will there be POSIX.utf-8, what will it bring?

2022-01-07 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Hello. shwaresyst wrote in <1494661216.220561.1641574109...@mail.yahoo.com>: [i resort a bit] | On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 3:40 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l \ | at The Open Group wrote: Hello! | |I wonder about POSIX.utf-?8, i tried to remember any statement |i had read, and

Re: Future of locale, will there be POSIX.utf-8, what will it bring?

2022-01-07 Thread shwaresyst via austin-group-l at The Open Group
The first Issue 8 draft is focusing, afaik, on adding the C1x changes and Mantis Issue 8 tagged items. The changes to XBD 6, 7, etc., that will formally add a POSIX UTF8 locale are to be part of the second, maybe third, draft. This is why you don't see them yet. For maximum compatibility with

Future of locale, will there be POSIX.utf-8, what will it bring?

2022-01-06 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Hello! I wonder about POSIX.utf-?8, i tried to remember any statement i had read, and Mantis did not show up results. In particular i am interested in whether LC_CTYPE results will bring true Unicode support or not, the reason i am asking is that the upcoming version of my work-box GNU