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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: lynx2.6 chartrans
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Drazen Kacar |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Re: lynx2.6 chartrans |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Nov 1996 04:45:44 +0100 (MET) |
Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Drazen Kacar wrote:
>
> I don't think they are defined in any of the more-or-less "official"
> versions of HTML. However, the HTML Pro DTD refers to:
>
> <!ENTITY % ISOlat2 PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 2//EN"
> --<Title>Latin-2 more accented characters--
> >
>
> Locating that as a file would help, but I leave that task to someone else...
If you pick up the complete .tar.gz, you'll find it there, I think.
> > there. Man standards says OSF 4.0 supports XPG4, whatever that is.
>
> A POSIX standard. Also supported by ncurses.
Why do all other POSIXes go by POSIX.something name, and this one doesn't?
Ah, nevermind...
> >
> > RESTRICTIONS
> >
> > Currently, the Digital UNIX product does not include locales whose
> > codesets use shift-state encoding. [...]
>
> That's probably referring to ISO-2022 "charsets", which are used for CJK
> scripts, not to UTF8.
Maybe. There are translation tables for Chinese and Japanese IIRC.
> > And so on... It seems that everything is there. Although the man page says
> > there is limitted support for UTF-8 translation.
>
> Quite vague.. and doesn't answer the question whether a console can
> *understand* UTF8...
It's quite vague because I can't find those things in half an hour. There
are loads of man pages for i18n and l10n. Those were excerpts from
introductory pages. I'll try latter, after I find out how to emulate
sigaction with sigvec. :( Or whatever I can find on ULTRIX.
> My `man ncurses(3X)' (from ncurses 1.9.9e) says
>
> "The following EXTENDED XSI Curses
> calls in support of wide (multibyte) characters are not
> yet implemented: addnwstr, addwstr, [etc. etc.]"
>
> Maybe you have those functions.
Yes, Solaris 2.5 and OSF 4.0 have them. I don't know about earlier versions.
There's no lower Solaris version around. I think there is older OSF somewhere.
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