glibc patches for i18n enhancement

Masahide Washizawa washi@yamato.ibm.co.jp
Tue Oct 31 00:44:00 GMT 2000


Ulrich Drepper-san wrote:

> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
>
> > - the code should follow the GNU coding standards, especially:
> >   * Comments have two spaces after a period and before the closing */,
> >     each comment ands with a period.
> >   * curly braces are always on a separate line
>
> I'm currently correcting this.
>
> > Are these patches under the GPL?  In that case the standard GPL header
> > can be added to them.
>
> The copyright is cleared.  IBM has an assignment filed which this code
> can be added to.  I'm adding appropriate headers.

Sorry for the insufficient patches. We are careful from the next time.

> > - Do the testsuite pass all tests?  I would appreciate if you could
> >   also add some tests for the new code.
>
> Yes, tests are necessary.  As it is no new tests are added and since
> we (understandably) have no charmap we cannot use the tst-tables.sh
> script.  Well, we could have charmaps for ibm1046 and ibm856.

We make preparations for their tests as early as possible, and submit them.

Thanks,
Masahide Washizawa
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