Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 13:48:10 -0500
From: AAganichev AT netscape DOT net (Alexander Aganichev)
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: gettext pretest available
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djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com wrote:
> But this is actually the tip of an iceberg: DOS and Windows encodings
> of 8-bit European and ISO-8859 character sets are different from those
> used by Unix and GNU/Linux systems. š(Windows is closer to Unix, since
> some codepages are exact replicas of the respective ISO-8859 charsets,
> but other codepages are different.)
> 
> So, apart of the issue of porting the code, there's a separate and
> not less important issue of converting the *.po and *.gmo files to the
> encoding used by the target OS. šIt would be nice if this issue could
> be solved as part of the Gettext package as well.
> 
> Juan, could you please describe the solution to this issue you used in
> your port of Gettext?
> 
> It would be interesting to know how did the Windows and OS/2 ports
> intend to handle this issue

They didn't AFAIK. At least for Russian locale gettext uses KOI8 instead of Windows-1251 so we either have to recode files manually or just delete them and use English locale.

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Alexander Aganichev
Hypercom Europe Limited, Inc.
Software Engineer


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