Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:08:26 +0200 (METDST)
From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: GNU Gettext on MSDOS
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On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> [Eli wrote: ]
> > So could anybody of the European guys (Morten? Robert?) please look into 
> > this and tell me if the character codes are the same?   
>
> I haven't actually looked inside the texts, but I'm almost sure the
> character codes are *not* the same. MSDOS uses its own character set

I looked inside the texts and I saw, the german specific characters are
not correct (the umlauts). But I have no experience with codepages and
such things, so I cannot help to solve the problem.

But if someone can port the gettext package, I would very interested in
it. I have done it already but not complete, because for building (bether
updating) there is a perl script, which I don't understand. (I never used
perl)

And a hint for the people, who want to port it. In the code where the
.mo file is opened, must be added the O_BINARY flag.

Robert
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