CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep
Makefile distinfo]
Gabor Kovesdan
gabor at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 17 07:21:57 UTC 2008
Andrey Chernov escribió:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:28:10AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>
>> BSD grep is even not bothering to call setlocale(). I can't say is it can
>> be simple healed by adding that call, some test suite run is needed.
>>
>
> Quick source inspection reveals that BSD grep operates with single bytes
> only (util.c) so big rewriting with mbrtowc() is needed. Adding
> setlocale() only will makes it only useable with single byte locales, in
> success case.
>
Sorry for the possibly silly question, but what we mean localization
here in the case of grep? As far as I see, it works with wide chars,
because the regex library is aware of those. What other aspect needs to
be taken into account? In case of sort, I understarnd that it should
explicitly handle wide characters due to the different alphabet of the
different languages and yes, that seems to be a difficult task...
Gábor
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