"Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:08:30PM -0400, Beman Dawes wrote: >>I've been in contact with Newlib people working on the problem in, which >>is >>where the problem needs to be solved. They really need encouragement that >>people do care about wide character support, and that not having it is a >>black eye for an otherwise excellent and highly appreciated Cygwin effort. >>IMO of course. > > I've been reading the newlib list and they do not need "encouragement". > Newlib is like any other free software project. They need someone to do > the work. Please do not send "me toos" to the newlib list. They are > not required. > > If you want something in newlib, then please submit a patch to make it > happen. That's how it works.
That was my original intent, but I'm holding off doing anything because I got private email indicating others had already done part of the work, although stalled at the moment. So I'm hoping that with a bit of encouragement they might finish the job. --Beman Dawes -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
