-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Josef Hintergger on 12/9/2006 2:01 AM: > Hi Eric,
Actually, it's a better idea if you post to the mailing list, rather than random developers. I hope you don't mind that I redirected this mail accordingly. > > I have noticed your remark in coreutils/TODO. One starting point could > be to look how the issue was solved in gawk, which is multibyte aware > since 3.1.5. > I am not the primary maintainer for coreutils, so it is not my call as to whether a multibyte patch is good enough for inclusion. I am aware that several distros have provided such patches, but none of them meet the two critical points that it must not penalize speed on single-byte locales, and it must be an easy-to-use framework across all affected apps that need to handle multibyte. > > I believe that the correct working of coreutils with multibyte locales > is very important, one spot check with AIX expr showed that expr returns > the correct length of an UTF-8-string since discontinued version AIX 4.3.3! Then how about showing how you feel by contributing a patch? > > Greetings from Austria > > Joe Hinteregger > - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFetUW84KuGfSFAYARAkrRAJwLErIwQFkQZ8QGZ3mvccR7BqRwGgCfbLjx 86chrTwSiGPlbHebd65bk+k= =KvY0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
