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Re: CYGWIN=codepage? Or LC_CTYPE=foo?


On Apr  6 13:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  6 13:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I would be basically fine with that, we just have to replace the
> > newlib functions _mbtowc_r and _wctomb_r.  All other conversions are
> > based on these.
> 
> Not quite, unfortunately.  iswalpha, iswblank, iswcntrl, iswprint,
> iswpunct, iswspace, towlower and towupper also need a bit of work.

Gee!  strcoll, strxfrm, wcscoll and wcsxfrm are also candidates,
of course.

Wouldn't it make sense to use, say, FreeBSD code for the character stuff
throughout?  Even for the sys_wcstombs and sys_mbstowcs functions?
Of so, would anybody like to help to work on this?


Corinna

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