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Re: A nl_langinfo(CODESET) emulator for FreeBSD and other legacy platforms

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On Wed Dec 26 19:29:48 2001 +0000 Markus Kuhn wrote:

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


It may work for FreeBSD where nl_langinfo appeared together with nl_langinfo(CODESET) but I doubt it will stick well with NetBSD where nl_langinfo() was without CODESET AFAIK. BTW it lacks koi8- tests.

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