Intent to package: libwcsmbs and wcsmbs-locale
As we discussed before, current glibc 2.0.x does not supports
major multibyte encodings such as EUC-JP, ShiftJIS, ISO-2022-JP
and so on. These encodings are necessary for Japanese processing.
So we, Debian JP Projects, developed packages to supports
these encodings, libwcsmbs and wcsmbs-locale.
The pacakge libwcsmbs will be preloaded and replace
wcs<->mbs functions to load wcsmbs.so dynamically according to
current LC_CTYPE settins. The package wcsmbs-locale provides
wcsmbs.so which contains encodings specific conversion routines.
wcsmbs-locale also provides some Korean encodings.
With these packages, we can use Japanese without major problems.
Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI
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