Subject: Re: multibyte locale stuff
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Jaromír Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/24/2001 11:47:34
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> 	i'll enable multibyte LC_CTYPE locale stuff in libc shortly.
> 	there's a long discussion on PR 12017 and tech-userlevel in the past.
> 	to summarize:
> 	- libc.a (for static linked binary) can enjoy singlebyte locale only.
> 	- libc.so (for shared binary) can enjoy multibyte locale library
> 	  support.  multibyte locale support needs /usr/lib/runemodule.*.so to
> 	  get dlopen'ed at runtime.

Seems like a good compromise. I'd probably preferred if the runemodules
would be in separate directory though (/usr/lib/runemodule/*.so ?)

Jaromir
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