[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: LYNX-DEV Adding additional characterset support
From: |
Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Adding additional characterset support |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:31:57 -0500 (CDT) |
On 7 Aug 1997, Jason F. McBrayer wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I just got mail from a Russian-speaking OS/2 user who need some help
> with Lynx (my 2-7-1 port to OS/2). Apparently, he is unable to
> prepare the IBM codepage corresponding to KOI8-r on his system, so he
> can't use the KOI8-r character set support in Lynx properly. For most
> applications, he uses IBM codepage 866, which is an alternate Cyrillic
> encoding.
>
> How much work would it be for me to add support for cp866 to Lynx
> 2-7-1? The user who need the character set sent me tables for
> remapping KOI8 to cp866, but I have no idea what to do with them. I
> told him that if there were a simple patch, I'd recompile for him, but
> if it's going to take more than that then he needs to find help
> somewhere on installing the codepage for KOI8.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
It's easy to add a new character set for either the development code or
fotemods after 1997-06-29, once you have set things up to compile the
chartrans code. See the README.* files in the src/chrtrans/ directory,
and (in the devel code) the README.chartrans file (that's a bit out
of date now, but most things except for the URLs should still apply.)
You don't need koi8-r <-> cp866 tables, but rather a Unicode <-> cp866
table. I don't have one, but it should be at <ftp://www.unicode.org/>.
We already have three Cyrillic charsets, that would be the 4th...
For a binary it probably makes sense to take some of the tables out.
Klaus
;
; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a mail message to address@hidden
; with "unsubscribe lynx-dev" (without the
; quotation marks) on a line by itself.
;
- LYNX-DEV Adding additional characterset support, Jason F. McBrayer, 1997/08/07
- Re: LYNX-DEV Adding additional characterset support,
Klaus Weide <=
- Re: LYNX-DEV Adding additional characterset support, Jason F. McBrayer, 1997/08/07
- Re: LYNX-DEV Adding additional characterset support, T.E.Dickey, 1997/08/20
- LYNX-DEV lynx-386 & file: relative links !, Eric Berenguier, 1997/08/20
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx-386 & file: relative links !, Wayne Buttles, 1997/08/20
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx-386 & file: relative links !, Doug Kaufman, 1997/08/20
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx-386 & file: relative links !, Hasan Karahasan, 1997/08/20
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx-386 & file: relative links !, David Woolley, 1997/08/23
- Re: LYNX-DEV Adding additional characterset support, Klaus Weide, 1997/08/21
- Re: LYNX-DEV Adding additional characterset support, Hynek Med, 1997/08/20