Re: finger

[Kimmo Suominen <kim%tac.nyc.ny.us@localhost>]

Can you point me at an example?  I've never dealt with multibyte.

Thanks,
+ Kim


| From:    itojun%iijlab.net@localhost
| Date:    Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:58:43 +0900
|
| >We could add an option to finger to have it force LC_CTYPE to "C".  This
| >would effectively revert to the original behaviour.
| >
| >I'm planning to add an option to fingerd to have it force LC_CTYPE to
| >en_US.ISO8859-1 or any user supplied value (on its command line), so
| >that remote finger will work.  Currently inetd (and fingerd) runs with
| >LC_CTYPE set to "C" (or rather "nothing"), so finger kim@localhost still
| >is returning only 7bit characters.
|
|       the above does not seem to be considering nothing about multibyte case.
|       you really need to do full wchar_t dance.
|
| itojun
|