On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 at 13:22, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote: > > > > If there are so many softwares that require G1/G2/G3 and > > > we want to utilize them on these tier-II ite ports, > > > maybe the right way to go to switching to MI wscons(9), > > > rather than remodeling ancient 4.4BSD derived wheels. > > > > I mean, that should be the goal regardless... > > Well, this reminds me your past word "quite time consuming".. > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sun3/1996/06/24/0001.html > > The essencial problem is that wscons(4) lacks > (but ancient x68k ite(4) still supports): > - ISO-2022-JP multibyte support > - EUC-JP support (currently broken but will be fixed soon after my changes) > - displaying Japanese character using the X680x0 on-board Kanji CG-ROM Those sound like they might be worth adding to the next GSOC list :), but I agree it makes perfect sense to tweak the existing ite code to improve the experience right now. > If we have never be able to reach the reasonable goal for >25 years, > I think we should rather consider acceptable and implementable compromise. David