DOS ain't dead - BSD alternatives to coreutils

BSD alternatives to coreutils (Developers)

posted by lmemsm , 20.01.2014, 13:24

My preference would be pure DOS ports. Have about a dozen utilities building on DOS so far. Still several I want to port to Windows and DOS. Also need to do more testing and debugging to make sure they're working properly. I don't like releasing anything until I feel it's fairly stable.

Was working on it yesterday. On Windows, I'm using regex and fnmatch code ported from musl C library. Tried compiling that code with djgpp yesterday to see if it would work. Had issues with not finding wide character versions of routines (like towupper, iswalnum, etc.). Left me wondering if there was UTF-8 support in the regex routines and the gnu utilities built with djgpp or whether it just supported the current code page. Does anyone know more on that?

I'm currently trying to decide whether to use my own utf-8 and wide character routines to add better utf-8 support or just stick with code page support only. Would be curious how others are handling internationalization issues like these.

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