Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/08/05/10:46:31
> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 08:41:26 -0500
> From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
>
> -: > In the `sed.mo' file for german I see that u" is represented
> -: > by ascii 252 and o" by ascii 246. But this is not correct for
> -: > either cp437 or cp850 (u" is 129 and o" is 148 in each).
> -:
> -: See the Content-type header of the file: it probably says that the
> -: file is in ISO-8859-1. The conversion to cp850 is done on the fly by
> -: libiconv, since on MS-DOS, the default for de locale is cp850.
>
> Using cp850 does not help, because as far as the display of german text is
> concerned, cp437 and cp850 are equivalent. In fact, given the character
> encoding of `sed.mo', *none* of the six codepages supplied with DOS 5 can
> correctly display the german text from `sed.mo'.
>
> I have read the detailed post by Juan several times, but I still cannot
> determine if the above would indicate that something is broken, or just
> not possible under djgpp.
It sounds like recoding is not done at all, since 252 and 246 are the
original Latin-1 codepoints of these two letters.
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