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Re: generating /etc/passwd and /etc/group for domians with users with cyrillic names
>>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:34:04 -0400
>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:
> Would it make sense to augment newlib to do the right thing, then?
No, I'm afraid it wouldn't.
`wcstombs' must be sensitive to a locale selected by an
application according to the ISO C standard.
In this case, however, it must be sensitive to the system
default locale of Windows.
I believe we should use WideCharToMultiByte for i18n of such
Windows specific tools.
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| AIST Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
| HOKURIKU School of Information Science
o_/ 1990 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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