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A nl_langinfo(CODESET) emulator for FreeBSD and other legacy platforms
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Markus Kuhn |
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A nl_langinfo(CODESET) emulator for FreeBSD and other legacy platforms |
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Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:29:48 +0000 |
Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote on 2001-12-24 10:30 UTC:
> It is true that softwares should use nl_langinfo(CODESET) as far as
> possible than looking at the environment variables. However, there
> are platforms which don't support nl_langinfo() such as FreeBSD.
Yes, we have heard that repeated many times now. You make far too much
fuzz about trivialities!
Simply ship your software with a little nl_langinfo() emulation that
fixes that problem until the FreeBSD people get they act together and
finally implement it. It can't take that much longer any more.
Hacking an acceptable nl_langinfo(CODESET) emulator shouldn't take much
longer then 12 minutes
... 11.487 minutes later ...
You'll now find one tested and ready for use on
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.h
Suggestions for improvement welcome.
Enjoy ...
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Dave Love, 2001/12/19
Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Roozbeh Pournader, 2001/12/23
Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Kenichi Handa, 2001/12/24