On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 02:28:51PM +0400, Alexander Churanov wrote: > Gabor, Joerg, > > I am currently working on UTF-8 support in syscons and highly > interested in making FreeBSD using UTF-8 out of box. > > There is my $0.02: > > 1) Why discuss UCS-4 at all? UTF-32 is alreay in place. SImple, > standardized, fixed-width and stateless.
UCS-4 and UTF-32 are, for most purposes, just two different names for the same encoding. > 2) I'm against using wchar_t internally, because C language standard > does not require that a wchar_t variable can hold an UTF-32 code > point. The C standard has very few requirements on wchar_t. It is up to each implementation to decide how wchar_t is defined. There is nothing which prevents the FreeBSD project from deciding that on FreeBSD wchar_t is always 32 bits wide, which can then be relied upon in FreeBSD-specific code. It is not like somebody else will change the relevant include files without warning. > 3) Please, give an example of character that does not fit into UCS-4. > I'll check whether it fits into UTF-32. I expect that any character > fits into a single UTF-32 code point. > > Sincerely, > Alexander Churanov > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se _______________________________________________ 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"
