> -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Elphick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 7:43 AM > To: Tom Lane > Cc: John Hansen; Hackers; Patches > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] UNICODE characters above 0x10000 > > On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 07:10, Tom Lane wrote: > > Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > glibc provides various routines (mb...) for handling Unicode. How
> > > many of our supported platforms don't have these? > > > > Every one that doesn't use glibc. Don't bother proposing a glibc-only > > solution (and that's from someone who works for a glibc-only company; > > you don't even want to think about the push-back you'll get from other > > quarters). > > No. that's not what I was proposing. My suggestion was to > use these routines if they are sufficiently widely > implemented, and our own routines where standard ones are not > available. > > The man page for mblen says > "CONFORMING TO > ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98" > > Is glibc really the only C library to conform? > > If using the mb... routines isn't feasible, IBM's ICU library > (http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/) is available under the X > licence, which is compatible with BSD as far as I can see. > Besides character conversion, ICU can also do collation in > various locales and encodings. > My point is, we shouldn't be writing a new set of routines to > do half a job if there are already libraries available to do > all of it. > This sounds like a brilliant move, if anything. > -- > Oliver Elphick > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isle of Wight > http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver > GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F > A543 10EA > ======================================== > "Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; > do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they > carry out their wicked schemes." > Psalms 37:7 > > > Kind Regards, John Hansen ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
