Re: woody bf-utf8 (Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support)
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 04:32:00PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:09:35PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> > Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>:
> >
> > > > Thanks! Now we have to check newt-utf8 by Enrique, then check the problem
> > > > in bogl-bterm which impede bterm working without libutf8.
> > >
> > > So do we actually stick to libutf8 or try to make it work with
> > > glibc?
> >
> > We make it work with glibc.
> >
> > Done.
> >
> > CVS log for bogl-term.c:
> >
> > With glibc-2.2.3, mbrtowc(&wc, s, 0, &ps) seems to return 0 instead
> > of (size_t)(-2). I think this is a bug in glibc-2.2.3. Make sure
> > we work either way.
>
> As I said on this list several times, I would appreciate it if someone
> would make boot floppies use libbogl0 and bogl-bterm instead. Every
> patch that goes in to bogl in this archive runs a high risk of being
> lost.
Why don't we remove it from boot-floppies CVS then? That way, no
one will be tempted to do the wrong thing. Is there some reason
it has to be here?
Matt
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