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Re: [PATCH 02/14] Fix character encoding aliases for OS/2


From: KO Myung-Hun
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] Fix character encoding aliases for OS/2
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:15:30 +0900
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Daiki Ueno wrote:
> Thanks for the update.  I'm attaching a slightly modified version of the
> patch, with typo and style fixes (e.g. adding two spaces after a period,
> according to GCS, etc).
> 

Thanks. ^^ And fixed typo, cp1361 to cp1381.

> KO Myung-Hun <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I used CODEPAGE and COUNTRY parts of OS/2 command references.
> 
> Could you provide the title and the corresponding section number of the
> manual?  For example, for VMS, we have the following comment:
> 
>       /* The list of encodings is taken from the OpenVMS 7.3-1 documentation
>          "Compaq C Run-Time Library Reference Manual for OpenVMS systems"
>          section 10.7 "Handling Different Character Sets".  */
> 

I added a document file name and entries.

>> And the differences of others is because cp915, cp921 and cp1381 are not
>> supported by libiconv. In these cases, I picked up code pages from
>> config.charset.
> 
> I see.
> 
>> Finally, I changed a code page for bg_BG from cp1251 to cp855 which is
>> etc code page.
> 
> Is this a desired change?  It seems those codepages are largely
> incompatible.  I changed this to ISO-8859-5.
> 

But cp855 is used on OS/2. So I decided it. But ISO-8859-5 is equivalent
to cp915, no problem.

> By the way, it's tempting to call DosQueryCp if a charset is omitted
> from the locale name, to avoid maintaining the default mapping
> ourselves.  I'd rather not do that for now, but is it feasible?

This was my first idea. But Bruno rejected. See

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-libiconv/2011-03/msg00000.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-libiconv/2011-06/msg00000.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-libiconv/2011-06/msg00001.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-libiconv/2011-06/msg00002.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-libiconv/2011-06/msg00003.html

-- 
KO Myung-Hun

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