Subject: Re: bin/12017: how to enable multibyte locale (and problem around it)
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net, soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/22/2001 19:55:33
> >Because current locale implementation is incomplete. It will become larger.
> 
> 	we swap encodings backends only, right?  most of the portions
> 	(frontends like fgetwc) will be shared among every encodings, and
> 	will be normal *.o/so in libc.  which portion is in your mind?

Another encoding modules, for example, an encoding module which can 
handle any codeset represented by charmap format. (this is required
to support localedef correctly).

Also, special LC_TIME module which can handle programmable date 
representation may make sense.
Perhaps special LC_COLLATE module which can handle programablle 
collation order, too.
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soda