Michael C . Wu wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:53:09PM +0100, Maxime Henrion scribbled:
> isprint() has been broken for a long long time. Clive Lin
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was about to fix it. I know that
> we have been slacking, but please give us some time.
Of course, this was only meant as a temporary solution, if isprint() is
going to be fixed soon then it's probably useless. I would like to see
this working for 4.3-RELEASE though, that's why I posted this patch.
> Have you tried setenv LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 before starting
> talk(1) and typing 8-bit chars? For most cases, this will work
> for 8-bit chars. (Yes, it is _*BADLY*_ broken.)
It unfortunately doesn't help here.
> Sorry, the fact that you remove #include <locale.h> and the
> check for LC_CTYPE makes this patch somewhat hard to accept.
I can understand this.
> However, I can accept a "talk-i18n" port that will go into the
> ports temporarily until we fix isprint(). Would this be acceptable
> for you? We can arrange to commit it as a port with you or I as
> the maintainer.
If you think it makes sense, I'd be glad to maintain such a port.
Thanks,
Maxime
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