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Re: charset changes
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:54:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: charset changes
- References: <416096c61001230305x20619d39x55e3a46b428ba@mail.gmail.com> <4B6C474B.7090600@towo.net> <20100205215047.GX28659@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Feb 5 22:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 5 17:28, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > These locales have inconsistent encodings:
> > [...]
> > ka_GE GEORGIAN-PS UTF-8
>
> We don't have an implementation of GEORGIAN-PS. If you provide one for
> newlib, I'll take it. The problem is, how to integrate it into the
> existing model which only has ISO and CPxxx codeset arrays for ctype and
> wide char conversion? Faking a non-existant Windows codepage? That's
> probably the easiest solution.
>
> > kk_KZ PT154 ISO-8859-5
>
> Same here.
I just added support for GEORGIAN-PS and PT154 to newlib and made
them default charsets for ka_GE and kk_KZ in Cygwin. In newlib
I just added them to the CPxxx charsets and gave them codepage numbers
unused in Windows.
Corinna
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