From: Bruno Haible <haible AT ilog DOT fr>
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:31:34 +0100 (CET)
To: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP specific patch for libiconv-1.5.1
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Juan Manuel Guerrero writes:
> The patch submitted here provides the files for the ./djgpp and
> ./libcharset/djgpp subdirs. The files in ./libcharset/djgpp will
> allow to configure, compile and install libcharset.a without configuring
> from the top srcdir.
> ...
> The patch is based on libiconv-20010226.tgz and has been tested on
> dos 6.22 using 4dos.com and win95 using command.com
> The patch is splitted in 4 parts.

Thanks a lot. I've added your files.

> Some of the locales marked as questionable can not be resolved by me.

I had hoped someone has a reliable registry of which DOS encoding is
used in which country.

> Cyrillic II CP866 is more similar to KOI8-R, so this codepage will
> be used instead of Cyrillic I CP855 for russian locale.

CP866 and KOI8-R are quite different.

> I have accepted most of the changes you have suggested, although I don't
> know if their are right.

Hey, my suggestions were certainly not better than your guesses,
because that web page I took them from was questionable. Until we have
a better source, let's simply take the first list you made, and wait
for people to complain.

Bruno