[Info-vax] terminal fallback tables

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-03-07 07:35:09 +0000, jirkak737 at gmail.com said:

> I'd like to make my own fallback tables to translate character sets 
> (iso-8859-2 <-> cp1250, iso-8859-1 <-> cp1252, ...).

Since you've posted a very specific question on a very specific 
approach using a very specific tool, you've already gotten a very 
specific (and correct) answer.

But on the off chance that this is a more generic character-conversion 
request and not something that needs to be implemented in the terminal 
driver display and its associated fallback mechanisms — it'd be a 
little odd to see Windows character encoding in that context, but then 
I also don't know the details of what you're working on here — so I'd 
wonder about the applicability and use of TFU here, and might use a 
tool that already provides various conversions, and that provides an 
API; iconv:

<http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/6494/6494pro_005.html#xpg4_iconv_conv_comm> 

<http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1489>
<http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1637>

OpenVMS with I18N installed doesn't have the referenced and 
Windows-specific character conversions included, though something like 
<http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libiconv/> or 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/gettext/files/libiconv-win32/1.9.1/> 
might be useful for adding those into your local environment.

The iconv mechanisms have a C API available, as well.


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