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From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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Subject: Re: gettext port
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-: > 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.

Using cp850 does not help, because as far as the display of german text is
concerned, cp437 and cp850 are equivalent.  In fact, given the character
encoding of `sed.mo', *none* of the six codepages supplied with DOS 5 can
correctly display the german text from `sed.mo'.

I have read the detailed post by Juan several times, but I still cannot
determine if the above would indicate that something is broken, or just
not possible under djgpp.