From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3204 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kurt H Maier Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: High-priority library replacements? Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:54:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20130425135446.GA16788@intma.in> References: <20130425041553.GA13951@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20130425055516.GA82796@intma.in> <5178DC8B.8010705@gmail.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366898096 24074 80.91.229.3 (25 Apr 2013 13:54:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:54:56 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3208-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu Apr 25 15:55:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UVMdX-0004JT-Ih for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:54:59 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 8150 invoked by uid 550); 25 Apr 2013 13:54:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 8142 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2013 13:54:58 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5178DC8B.8010705@gmail.com> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3204 Archived-At: On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 09:34:35AM +0200, Jens Staal wrote: > On 2013-04-25 07:55, Kurt H Maier wrote: > > Does it work as a drop-in replacement for unixy utf/wchar > implementations or is it the Plan9 variant (reference to Runes implies > the later)? I found myself needing at first libwchar from heirloom and > later the (old) GNU libutf8 under APE to provide some wchar-related > functions expected by various applications. > > It felt really silly to "devolve" like that. It's the Plan 9 variant -- wchar is a thing that needs to go away... maybe one day we can get there. :( khm