Re: lynx-dev non-Unix gettext (was: Re: release)

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:
> 
> > Finally, one could always translate the catalog files themselves before
> > installing.
> > 
> > So there's 3 more ways in which message catalog files can be made to
> > work on e.g. DOS (and the last one should work now),
> 
> There isn't a problem to set this up on your own machine. As I
> mentioned in another post, it would be easy to run recode on the
> .po file before creating the .mo or .gmo file. The question for a
> distributable file would be which character set to use. In the US, DOS
> generally comes configured for cp437, with cp850 as an alternative.
> In other countries, cp850 may be the default. I frequently use cp819
> (ISO 8859-1), but this is not widely installed. Up to now, I have
> distributed the binary compiled with gettext support, but assumed that
> anyone who needed it would prepare their own .mo files. It seems a bit
> much to prepare .mo files for multiple character sets, especially if
> we don't have an indication of much demand. 

Yes, I didn't mean that it would make sense to offer .mo files in
multiple character sets for download.  Or even, that .mo files should
be packaged with your DOS binary (that's up to you, of course).

>                                              If there are occasional
> DOS users who need NLS for the DOS binary, we can point to the
> precompiled binaries for gettext and recode that should give them the
> tools that they need.


 Klaus