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

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Ulrich Spörlein <uspoerlein at gmail.com> (from Mon, 16 Mar 2009  
19:35:34 +0100):

> 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 :/

Anorther approach would be to make calendar DTRT with UTF-8... one  
step into this direction (german UTF-8 catalogs) is at  
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/user/netchild/calendar-utf8/

Bye,
Alexander.

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