Re: Displaying characters in user's locale

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:33:39 +0000
>> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Karl Berry <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>>
>> I've attached a patch which uses iconv as you suggested. I've tested
>> it with the two files attached under both utf-8 and iso8859-1 locales.
>> (I did this by, e.g. running "LANG=en_US.UTF8" to get a UTF-8
>> terminal.) I haven't been able to figure out how to get an ASCII-only
>> terminal yet.
>
> Thank you for doing this.
>
> Allow me a few comments about the patch.
>
Here's an updated patch. To work the iconv module needs to be added from gnulib.

A few test files are attached as well.

To do -
* Add more ASCII equivalent strings
* Default encoding is set as UTF-8 - decide whether this is desired
* Only convert one node at a time, when it is viewed?
* Effect of changing length of nodes on tag table. It can cope with
small changes, but there could be problems with long files with a lot
of converted characters in them.

character-encoding.patch
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iso8859_1.info
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iso8859_7.info
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utf8.info
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