Hi Hackers@ Problem: /usr/src/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.c is not 8 bit clean. (ie French or German etc text with accents in gets broken)
Alternate Solutions: Solution 1: Discard "& 0x7f checks. Allow pretty much all 8 bit as a printable. This would need some patching. It might freak out some from the English speaking world ? ( We should also consider whether other tools like cat sed awk grep etc are 8 bit clean ? ) Solution 2: Apply my patches. They work for English German & French German for 9 years, French added yesterday (maybe I missed an accent ?). If we extended for more languages, would we regret not choosing Solution 1 ? http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/usr.bin/fmt/ Links for all releases from 4.10 to 8.0, reduce to just 4 files: Jul 26 2001 ./fmt.1.REL=ALL.diff Nov 9 2004 ./fmt.c.tail.diff.REL=4.10-RELEASE.diff May 25 00:20 ./fmt.c.tail.diff.REL=5.3-RELEASE.diff May 25 02:35 ./fmt.c.top.diff.REL=ALL.diff Solution 3: Import a single Locale ? Inadequate, Would fail to support multiple font sets simunltaneously. Example: Pasting notes into an xterm, clauses from http://seafrance.com in English then French original & German, to get the feel of what an unclear English translation really meant on booking amendment fees) Solution 4: Support Multiple Fonts simultaneously How ? Solution 1 or 2 ? or use wchar ? Isocode ? ... Or ? A non native English speaker, best to do this I guess. Not me: I am English; My patches work for me. I don't want to work more to support fonts I dislike (Before FreeBSD started I already listed 3 different incompatible German umlaut representations, & had developed Russian fonts for SCO, & now with BSD use groff & HTML font escapes, & for decades I've experienced regular change of German & English & American keyboards eg at customer sites, when all I (English) want is Ascii & BIOS conformant American), national accent fonts etc I don't enjoy) PS I'll be off line soon, won't see replies for a while, please discuss/ improve/ send-pr/ commit/ whatever in my absence :-). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text, Not HTML quoted-printable Base64 http://www.asciiribbon.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
