On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:

> 
> >> Is there anything in current that provides wide character support?  I'm
> >> messing around with document formatting, and I have to be involved with
> >> wide character things.  One example: wcscat().  It's not the only one, I
> >> just need to know if it's in *any* library, and declared in any include
> >> file.
> 
>       There are several Japanese people working on stateful multibyte char
>       support.  Existing codebase like glibc only supports stateless
>       multibyte char.  People using iso-2022 variants (Japan, Korea,
>       China, you name it) need stateful multibyte char support.
>       We have some code fragment used in various software packages
>       like multilingual vi or multilingual schedule management tool, and
>       we would like to clean up those to fit into src/lib/whatever.
>       I'll be talking about this issue a bit in my presentation at Usenix/
>       Freenix99 (titled "multilingual vi") so come to presentation
>       room or catch me somewhere in the conference site.
> 
>       (again, there's language barrier problem...  I think we should sort
>       it out.  I believe the best way is to ban Japanese-language mailing
>       list for the project, but other volunteers may have some trouble)

Do you guys have any testable, even if it's not ready for prime time?  I
need wchar.h and the wcs* functions for a project for FreeBSD.  You want
me to have this, I think.  David said he had something ready to play
with (I think) but I haven't heard from him yet.

As far as the list ... Urrr, I don't speak Japanese.  I'm willing if
someone would do the interpreting, but I better make it clear that my
own interest is in document formatting, not on the Unicode support in
and of itself, you understand?  I want you guys to be able to use my
stuff, but since I can't read it, I'll never use 16 bit characters
myself.

I think.

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