Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 11:11:49 +0300
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Subject: Re: gettext port
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> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:34:43 -0500
> From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
> 
> -: > > +LANG=de
> -: > > +LANGUAGE=de,en
> -: > > 
> -: > > then I _do_ get German text (e.g., from `sed --version'), but the
> -: > > umlauted and ess-tzett chars are incorrectly mapped on my screen
> -: > > under CP437.  These chars _are_ available in the upper half of CP437,
> -: > > however.
> 
> In the `sed.mo' file for german I see that u" is represented
> by ascii 252 and o" by ascii 246.  But this is not correct for
> either cp437 or cp850 (u" is 129 and o" is 148 in each).

See the Content-type header of the file: it probably says that the
file is in ISO-8859-1.  The conversion to cp850 is done on the fly by
libiconv, since on MS-DOS, the default for de locale is cp850.