Subject: I18n in NetBSD (was NetBSD NFS server ...)
To: NetBSD Users <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Magnus Eriksson <magetoo@fastmail.fm>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/13/2007 21:45:30
I'm hijacking the situation to further my own internationalist agenda. 
Sorry about that.  :-)


On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> If someone is motivated, please feel free to file an issue against 
> http://bugreport.apple.com...



This brings up something else to mind too, though.  Let me pick a couple 
of points from the following:


http://www.netbsd.org/about/roadmap.html


In general, we are headed for:

 	* "State of the art" tools [...]


2. Platform independent userland

ah. Internationalization
     Citrus, wide-char curses (SoC integration?), collation, localized
     printf with positional parameter support, time & currency
     support, etc.  NetBSD has a global user and developer base and
     our i18n support should reflect that.
         [...]


My own snarky comments would be that 1: expecting US-ASCII is no longer 
considered state of the art, anywhere, by anyone; and 2: that us in the 
global user base can still hardly see our own reflection here.

(Yes, I realize that NFS is probably not a "tool" in the sense used in the 
roadmap description.  Still.)


So I'd say Jukka Marin might as well file a PR (too).


MAgnus