Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/07/18/15:37:42
> From: "Tim Van Holder" <zastai AT hotmail DOT com>
> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 12:09:34 GMT
>
> I do not feel it is excessive to ask of the people making
> the DJGPP distributions to have perl, autoconf, and automake.
I do feel that this is excessive.
> In any case, true out-of-the box NLS support would be impossible anyway; the
> translation project almost always uses latin1 as charset for its PO files
> (or the relevant charset for non-latin text). So the maintainer would have
> to use recode to convert the PO file to, say, code pages 437 and 850 (they
> seem the most widespread) before formatting them (and preferably update the
> PO file header to reflect the charset change).
Juan's port has a provision for this, so this problem is not an issue
anymore.
> the PO files would need to be available in pretty much every IBM
> codepage
No, you only need to translate each .po file into the codepage that
supports the same locale.
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