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

[Ivan Voras]

2009/3/13 Gábor Kövesdán <gabor at freebsd.org>:
>
>> Nice!  I need to find some time to learn how to use NLS.
>>
>> Now, you only need to revive the BSD-licensed libiconv[1].  :)  I am
>> kidding;  I do not want to start adding more stuff to your plate.  Thank you
>> for strengthening FreeBSD's i18n support.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, how does enabling NLS in libc interact with the
>> devel/gettext port?
>
> Well, it's not a bad idea, actually I'm thinking of generating some more
> catalogs automatically but the problem is that we don't have iconv in the
> base system. For example, we could easily make a hu_HU.UTF-8 catalog from
> hu_HU.ISO8859-2 by just converting the encoding of the catalog file. And the
> same applies to a bunch of locales...

This only glances the original topic, but Konrad (konrad@,
konrad.jankowski at bluemedia.pl) was doing UTF-8 collation support and
it appears that the project is very close to completion but for a few
months now Konrad is busy with RL stuff and has postponed it. Maybe
you could benefit from his work and also bring it in?