From: Bruno Haible <haible AT ilog DOT fr>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-ID: <14971.212.679293.634887@honolulu.ilog.fr>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:47:48 +0100 (CET)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com,
        "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Subject: Re: gettext pretest available
In-Reply-To: <8296-Fri02Feb2001185506+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il>
References: <14970 DOT 45885 DOT 260391 DOT 572165 AT honolulu DOT ilog DOT fr>
	<8296-Fri02Feb2001185506+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com
X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com
Precedence: bulk

Eli Zaretskii writes:

> 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.
> 
> 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.  It would be nice if this issue could
> be solved as part of the Gettext package as well.

This gettext pretest has the ability to do character set conversion on
the fly, e.g. from ISO-8859-1 to CP437. All you need to do to get this
working is

1) Adapt the intl/localcharset.c and intl/config.charset files for the
DJGPP platform.

2) Install libiconv (http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html)
prior to gettext.

Converting the .po or .gmo files is not the solution, because users
normally don't have the msgfmt/msgunfmt programs available at runtime.

> Finally, there's a nuisance due to the fact that the DJGPP library has
> an incompatible function whose name is also gettext.  Juan found a
> solution for this as well, and I will ask him to describe it as part
> of his response.

Yes, please describe.

Bruno