Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:03:52 -0500 To: lwn@lwn.net From: Geoff Hutchison <ghutchis@wso.williams.edu> Subject: Re: ht://Dig Development update Hi again, I hope I'm not too late for this week. I have an update on ht://Dig development (they should be coming more frequently again). In addition, I have an announcement about our Unicode effort. Geoff Hutchison wrote in with a development update on ht://Dig. With several outstanding bugfixes, there will be a 3.1.3 release for all production servers in the next few days. In the meantime, work is reaching completion on the first beta release of 3.2.0. In the last two weeks, the database formats have stabilized, and full phrase searching is supported in the latest snapshot. At this point, the last major hurdle to the 3.2.0b1 release is a cleanup of the connection and transport code. In related news, we've been interested in adding support for multibyte characters using a robust Unicode library. Several open-source libraries exist and each has their own strengths and weaknesses. At a minimum, there are: libunicode C : http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&dir=libunicode recode-3.5 : http://www.gnu.org/software/recode/recode.html glibc-2.1 iconv/wchar : http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html Perl-5.006 C : http://www.perl.com/ IBM ICU C++ : http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/icu/ A development list was started by Loic Dachary <loic@ceic.com> for discussing how these efforts can result in a useful application library, usable by any number of developers to make internationalization and localization much easier. To join the 'Software i18n and localization' mailing list (so far no activity), see http://www.egroups.com/group/sw-i18n-l10n/info.html Thanks, -Geoff