Re: lib/57064: Import OpenBSD's script to autogen Unicode ctype definition?

[Rin Okuyama <rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/57064; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rin Okuyama <rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost>
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>, gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/57064: Import OpenBSD's script to autogen Unicode ctype
 definition?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:52:53 +0900

 On 2022/10/19 3:15, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >> Also note that switch to OpenBSD's ctype definition of UTF-8 does
 >> *not* completely resolve our problems related to UTF-8. Our Citrus
 >> locale does not recognize combining characters (incl. variation
 >> selectors). Such characters may confuse applications.
 > 
 > That's not really surprising. Combining characters don't fit the classic
 > model of ISO C very well. They confuse a lot of software that makes poor
 > assumptions like every glyph corresponds 1:1 with a unicode code point
 > etc. But that's beyond the scope.
 
 Well. Actually, recent versions of macOS and glibc also cannot
 handle combining characters...
 
 Thanks,
 rin