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Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 17:55:36 -0300
From: salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: gettext port
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, salvador wrote:
> > 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.
>
> But the downside is that you need to produce a separate message
> catalogue for each possible codepage.  For example, with Cyrillic
> languages, there are half a dozen possible encodings, maybe more.

I understand it, but in any case you need some user setup. How the program
will know to what code page to translate? DOS have a call for it, but it could
return a wrong value and in Linux things are even more complicated.
I don't see why the user can't just use recode to adjust the messages.
Specially in our case (djgpp).
Of course that's just a point of view, but I don't really like bloating
executables like this.
Another thing: could we have a library stripped to the really used
conversions? I mean, we won't need to translate messages in really bizarre
encodings. My text editor can deal with over than 40 code pages and it doesn't
really introduce too much overhead.

SET

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