Re: lib/48427: libedit shouldn't require ISO 10646

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/48427; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/48427: libedit shouldn't require ISO 10646
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 18:59:55 +0100

 On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:15:00PM +0000, yuri%rawbw.com@localhost wrote:
 > You limit the character set to UCS (ISO 10646) in order to make sure
 > that lower 127 code points are ASCII. There are many character sets
 > that satisfy this condition, and UCS is just one of them. Other
 > practical examples are KOI8-U,KOI8-R for Cyrillic, ISO/IEC 8859-15, and
 > some others for some other languages.
 
 Just like Thomas I don't understand your point. The encoding used for
 wchar_t is a fixed implementation detail and does not rely on any user
 environment settings in NetBSD.
 
 You may use any of the encodings you list above for multibyte character
 sequences, but you will always get full 32bit unicode for wchar_t.
 At least on NetBSD.
 
 Martin