Unicode-based FreeBSD

[Konrad Jankowski]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Loren M. Lang <lorenl at north-winds.org> wrote:
> The third area that FreeBSD might need some improvement is in libc.  I
> am less familiar with this area so my information may be incorrect.
> Basic locale and Unicode support exists in libc, but more advanced
> functionality like character classes and collating needs work.  The
> commands mklocale and colldef are used to create the appropriate binary
> data files from source and, if I remember correctly, used a format which
> is too simplified to fully support a modern Unicode specification.

The collation and colldef are being worked on right now, and the work
is almost finished. Link to my wiki with project status, if somebody
is interested:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/KonradJankowski/Collation