Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-05-06 Thread Alexander Churanov
Gabor, Joerg, I am currently working on UTF-8 support in syscons and highly interested in making FreeBSD using UTF-8 out of box. There is my $0.02: 1) Why discuss UCS-4 at all? UTF-32 is alreay in place. SImple, standardized, fixed-width and stateless. 2) I'm against using wchar_t internally,

Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-05-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 02:28:51PM +0400, Alexander Churanov wrote: Gabor, Joerg, I am currently working on UTF-8 support in syscons and highly interested in making FreeBSD using UTF-8 out of box. There is my $0.02: 1) Why discuss UCS-4 at all? UTF-32 is alreay in place. SImple,

Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-05-06 Thread Alexander Churanov
2009/5/6 Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se: The C standard has very few requirements on wchar_t.  It is up to each implementation to decide how wchar_t is defined. There is nothing which prevents the FreeBSD project from deciding that on FreeBSD wchar_t is always 32 bits wide, which can

Re: bootstrapping gnat GCC on amd64

2009-05-06 Thread xorquewasp
On 2009-05-06 10:57:25, Daniel Eischen wrote: Back in the day when I did it, it was with gcc-2.7.x or gcc-2.8.x I believe. The cross build process with gnat was a little different. I couldn't do a normal gnat build, which did a bootstrap and then rebuilt the compiler again using the

Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-05-06 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 02:28:51PM +0400, Alexander Churanov wrote: 1) Why discuss UCS-4 at all? UTF-32 is alreay in place. SImple, standardized, fixed-width and stateless. Which part of combining characters is stateless? Sure, you can ignore that in some/many applications, but it still exists.

Re: Cobalt Raq 550

2009-05-06 Thread Simon Dick
On Tue, 5 May 2009 14:03:46 +0300, Jukka Ruohonen jruoho...@iki.fi said: On 05.05.2009, Simon Dick wrote: with them at my last job, I don't remember hearing about anyone who'd managed to get anything except linux working on it though (though I'm sure someone must have!) Perhaps somewhat