Okay, I just got a bit more info from our main locale-issues developer
(Jon Trulson):
The multi-byte functions *are* there in glibc. He knows they are there.
They just are not reliable enough, powerful enough, to stick with in our
new products. (i.e. setlocale() doesn't apparently do
At the risk of reviving a very quickly-quiet thread... I've still an
interest and have acquired some opinions around our software house.
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 01:37:05PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
]>Glibc is good, but what about wide char, unicode etc.. etc.. etc.. ad biggum.
] Glibc does wide ch
may even want to develop the widespread 'free' one that
ought to exist. China, Japan and other non-West folks should get more than a
hack for their buck... if they want to do word processing and more under X.
Are there any concerns or opinions toward the non-ASCII universii?
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