[haiku-development] Re: Advice needed on how to solve an issue
- From: Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:07:47 +0100
Hi PulkoMandy,
On 2009-12-27 at 18:53:29 [+0100], PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm looking at the following issue :
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1586
>
> I'm not sure how to handle it. What do you think : is it better to modify
> ctype.h to use ICU and make toupper/tolower and friends do the right
> thing, or is it better to modify query.cpp to call the locale kit directly
> ? or should I do both ?
>
> ctype.h is expected to follow POSIX locales according to linux manpages,
> so it would make sense to make it use ICU.
Yes, I think so, too. All the locale-related stuff should be handled by ICU,
we only need to decide if it's ok that libroot depends on one (or more) of
the ICU libs or if we should avoid that to reduce the time it takes to load
tiny apps.
Opinions?
cheers,
Oliver
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