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List:       freebsd-standards
Subject:    Re: unexpand -t option
From:       Kelly Yancey <kbyanc () posi ! net>
Date:       2002-02-19 2:41:23
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:14:15 +1100, Tim Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> said:
>
> > to support multibyte encoding: make `ch' in tabify() a rune_t, use
> > fgetrune() and fputrune() instead of getchar()/putchar(). Should I make
> > this change?
>
> No.  There is a Standard way to do this, which we haven't managed to
> implement yet.  I believe the CITRUS project was working on that, but
> I haven't heard anything from them in quite a few months now....
>
> -GAWollman
>

  The CITRUS project's FreeBSD codebase seems to be suffering from bit-rot.
However, David Cross and I are working on porting NetBSD's implementation
(which, again, comes from CITRUS) to FreeBSD.

  Kelly
  kbyanc@{posi.net,FreeBSD.org}



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