Re: coreutils and i18n

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> As for i18n, some students nearly took on the project of implementing a
>> palatable solution recently, but that's been deferred for a few months.
>
> Interesting... In 2001 you set out the following requirements for such
> a solution:
>   - Processing in unibyte locales should not become significantly slower
>     than before.
>   - Code duplication should be avoided, for maintainability.
>   - Macros which expand to one thing in the multibyte case and to another
>     thing for the unibyte case are not acceptable.
>
> How will this students' project solve this dilemma?

There's no guarantee, but Paul and I will be supervising.