Roland Mainz wrote at 01/21/08 14:21: >>> Do you have a list somewhere ? >> No, I don't have but those are things of similar nature that you can >> easily guess such as string based case conversions, support of title case >> and conversions, user customizability of locale data, enhancement on regular >> expression handling, > > At least this item is already on my ToDO list, maybe even as part of > porting the AST "unified" pattern matching code to the Solaris libc...
This is good to know. There is also some G11N group internal discussion on what should we do to have I18N support better and on-the-fly user-customizable (which is a bit premature to say any further). > One remaning issue is Don's answer to the question in > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2008-January/005856.html > - we can only do this if the use of multibyte characters is "allowed" in > this case... otherwise we can throw the idea into the trashcan and make > the current "workaround" for "libc does not like multibyte characters > for some numeric seperators" in > http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/nv-g11n/g11n/src/locale_src/base/ar_SA.UTF-8.localedef > the permanent fix. I have nothing else to add here but that's probably only and a practical way to deal with the situation for now quite regrettably. Ienup
