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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 17:33:11 -0300
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> NLS support requires translation between different character sets,
> like between ISO-8859-1 and the corresponding DOS codepage 850 (to
> pick an example that is relevant for DJGPP).

Is that really true?
In the past I shipped Linux version of my .mo files in ISO-8859-1 and DOS
version in 850. So the installed translations match with the system.
No translation needed, so no memory nor speed overhead was introduced.

SET

P.S. The .po files are in one code page, the make files applies a conversion
with recode if needed.

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