Re: LYNX-DEV Adding additional characterset support

[T.E.Dickey]

why do the tables have to be compiled-in, anyway?

> It's easy to add a new character set for either the development code or
> fotemods after 1997-06-29, once you have set things up to compile the
> chartrans code.  See the README.* files in the src/chrtrans/ directory,
> and (in the devel code) the README.chartrans file (that's a bit out
> of date now, but most things except for the URLs should still apply.)
> 
> You don't need koi8-r <-> cp866 tables, but rather a Unicode <-> cp866
> table.  I don't have one, but it should be at <ftp://www.unicode.org/>.
> 
> We already have three Cyrillic charsets, that would be the 4th...
> For a binary it probably makes sense to take some of the tables out.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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