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Re: UTF-8 capable fmt(1)



On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 02:36:07AM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> 1. I have an impression that it's basically moving the focus from
> ASCII to narrowed-down UTF-8, while there are plenty of other locales
> and character systems.

It uses standard headers like locale.h, wchar.h and wctype.h, and uses
mbtowc(). What is the problem with these functions?

> I prefer to keep 30-years old fmt(1) than messed one.

Well, for me, the 30-years old one is "messed" too for non-ASCII.
 Thomas


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