Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 15:40:09 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: GNU Gettext on MSDOS
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The latest versions of Text- and Fileutils come with optional
internationalization via GNU Gettext (which is bundled with every
package).  For now I'm building them without international support, but it
would be a pity to lose this feature if it is useful on MSDOS, because it
seems to be easily portable to DJGPP (as far as I saw). 

What I cannot easily figure out is this: are the ASCII codes of the
characters the same on Unix and MSDOS, at least for European languages?  
If not, then I'd rather not mess with this now, because I don't know 
enough about it and don't have European support installed anywhere nearby 
to play with it.

So could anybody of the European guys (Morten? Robert?) please look into 
this and tell me if the character codes are the same?  The easiest way is 
to look at the message files inside the latest Textutils 1.19 and see 
whether you see your native letters in the file (e.g., for German text) 
`de.po' in the po/ subdirectory.

Thanks for any help.