[illumos-Developer] webrev - fix for 169 Lack of "rune" wctype breaks tr -C

Garrett D'Amore garrett at damore.org
Fri Sep 10 10:33:32 PDT 2010


They are not used anywhere in Solaris.

We don't use BSD character width info in the same way, because we had
requirements to retain compatibility with Solaris' encoding of the ctype
data.  We're good here, but thanks for your concern.

	- Garrett

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 18:51 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've posted http://mexico.purplecow.org/gdamore/webrev/rune/
> >
> > This, combined with code from richlowe, allows tr -d -C to work
> > properly.
> 
> Did you check whether _E21 .. _E24 are used somewhere? They seem to be
> in conflict with the BSD character width info.
> 
> Jörg
> 





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