[illumos-Developer] tr webrev

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:

> So, we're faced with a choice.
>
> The NetBSD tr sounds like it works correctly in some cases that our
> current FreeBSD does not.

Could you please list these cases?

> But from reading the review, NetBSD tr lacks support for some things
> that FreeBSD supposedly has.  Chiefly support for internationalization
> (which is important when dealing with multibyte locales or character
> sets that have different interpretations for character classes), and
> support for -C.

Implementing -C for multibyte character classes is not trivial.

My general impression for BetBSD vs. FreeBSD is that FreeBSD usually is more 
modern and more feature rich.

I would first like to understand the constraints (e.g. which problems are 
expected from which implementation).

Jörg

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