On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:51:08PM +0200, Stefan Hoffmeister wrote:
>
> What are the status of / plans for support of select wide character
> routines, such as the ones declared in wchar.h?
>
> Particularly, I am looking for wcsoll, towupper, and towlower - IOW, the
> whole barrage of wide character transformation and collation :-)
>
> I haven't found anything conclusive in the mailing list archives.
>
> Has anyone tried to "fake" support for these functions via iconv
> operations from wide characters to the locale charset, performing a
> "normal" toupper / tolower / strcoll, and then transforming back?
>
> I am not certain whether these two transformations would be lossy or not.
I guess I should leave the answers to someone more familiar with this
than I am (next to none), but I do believe that Takuya SHIOZAKI
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is currently working on multibyte support
in -current's libc.
G'luck,
Peter
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