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Subject: Re: GNU Gettext and NLS support for DJGPP
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:31:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Alain Magloire" <alain AT qnx DOT com>
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii), pinard AT iro DOT umontreal DOT ca
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Bonjour

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > > Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:15:49 -0300
> > > From: salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
> > >
> > > > Perhaps.  All I know is the encoding is in the .po and .gmo files, so
> > > > you could use that info if you wanted.
> > >
> > > Do you have any idea of how can it be? I generate the .mo (.gmo)  files without
> > > giving any information about encoding, and I generate PC437 and ISO-1 versions.
> >
> > I never looked close enough at this, so perhaps you know more than I
> > do.
> >
> > We could ask the people involved in the Translation Project for some
> > help, though.  In particular, Francois Pinard, the author of recode
> > and a co-author of gettext, is a very helpful guy,
> 
> I agree any suggestion should be tried with Francois first.
> I got very different replies from Francois and Ulrich when I complained about a
> xgettext "feature".

Sorry I could not help smiling, believe it or not they are actually
good friends 8-)

> > and he *does* have
> > sympathies for DJGPP.
> 
> I don't know about it, but I can say Francois takes the things in a
> very different way.

8-), I'm sure he will be please to here that.  He is sometimes rather
ruthless when you put your code to his scrutiny.
Now if he could just improve on his ... (email)response delay ;-)

Anyway, I disgress, I was going to say that I thing Franc,ois has
a modified gettex.m4 that should also work with DJPP,  I had to
do some work base on the input from Eli to GNU grep intl working
for DJGPP.

--
alain