svn commit: r189765 - in head: . lib/libc lib/libc/nls

[Ulrich Spörlein]

On Fri, 13.03.2009 at 14:22:16 -0400, David Schultz wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> > Now, you only need to revive the BSD-licensed libiconv[1].  :)
> [...]
> >   1. http://people.freebsd.org/~bland/iconv-2.1.tar.gz
> 
> I asked a few weeks ago on standards@ why we weren't using Citrus
> iconv, which is what NetBSD uses, and seems to be in a somewhat
> better state than this. It also provides various wide character
> conversion routines that overlap with what tjr@ has already done
> in FreeBSD, so we'd have to sort that out. And we'd have to sort
> out a gazillion ports that want -liconv.

I, for one, would love to see some iconv overlo^Wsupport in base. That
way, I could teach calendar(1) to translate stuff to LC_CTYPE, right now
the German calendar file is saved in Latin1 whereas I'm using UTF-8
terminals :/

Cheers,
Ulrich Spörlein
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