codepages: gettext() on DOS (was: Re: lynx-dev Re: release)

[Leonid Pauzner]

23-Apr-2000 17:49 Doug Kaufman wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 100, T.E.Dickey wrote:

>> the gettext version for djgpp or win32.  (I'm certain that it's not
>> been built for VMS).

> All the DOS binaries that I have been distributing from my web site
> for at least the last year are built with "-lintl". The appropriate
> phrases are substituted when LANG is set in the environment. For this
> to work properly, however, the DOS machine would have to be set to
> ISO 8859-1 or ISO 8859-2. The codepages are available, but not widely
> used.

There is another solution: you can convert *.po file for your
display charset exactly (by printing to a file from lynx,
just load the original *.po and set assumed charset and display
charset properly). Than, the message catalog should be recompiled.

>                             Doug
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