RE: Add another encoding

[Yen-Ju Chen]

  Thanx a lot.
  It works !!

  Yen-Ju

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Frith-Macdonald [mailto:richard@brainstorm.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 8:02 AM
> To: Yen-Ju Chen
> Cc: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Add another encoding
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 06:17 PM, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
> 
> >
> >   I want to ask whether GNUstep can add another encoding
> >   for Traditional Chinese in NSString.h, Unicode.m and other related 
> > files.
> >   The encoding for Traditional Chinese is "BIG5".
> >   So the encoding name could be NSBIG5StringEncoding or
> >   something else which is suitable.
> >   And the name for iconv is "BIG5" in Unicode.m in 
> > iconv_stringforencoding()
> > method.
> 
> Ok. will do that.
> 
> In general I see no problem with adding encodings, it would seem silly to
> restrict ourselves to the old OpenStep ones or even to the MacOS-X ones.
> The only thing is, if/when MacOS-X does support these encodings, we would
> probably want to change our names to match theirs.
> 
> >   It is not publicly supported in Cocoa, but I think it can be added as
> > GNUstep additions
> >   as NSGSM0338StringEncoding, etc.
> >   And MacOS X must use some private methods to support Big5
> >   because it have Traditional Chinese version.
> >
> >   By the way, in System/Libraries/Resources/Languages/Locale.aliases,
> >   could GNUstep also add another alias as "zh_TW = TraditionalChinese".
> 
> Done that too.
> 
> Please try it out and let me know if I missed anything.
>