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SubjectRe: [patch] forward port of 16 bit nls (vfat, ntfs, ncpfs,
On  3 Jul 00 at 19:17, Urban Widmark wrote:

> nls16-2.4.0-test3-pre2.patch:
> * Adds new conversion routines for charset <-> unicode to handle variable
> sized characters. Compared to 2.2, adds a returnvalue for failures.
> * Adds conversion routines for making characters upper/lower case since
> the old array solution isn't practical past 8 bit.
> * Sets CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT to iso8859-1 by default since this value is
> used as "iocharset" (= local display charset) and not as the
> on-disk/remote codepage. 2.2 uses cp437.
> nls16-new-charsets-2.4.0-test3-pre2.patch:
> * New charsets from 2.2 + updated Configure.help
> cp932 (sjis, euc-jp), cp936 (gb2312), cp949 (euc-kr), cp950 (big5)
> You only need this if you want to use these charsets, applies on top of
> the other nls16-* patch.

If you could build utf8 conversion table for me to use it in place of
iocharset and/or codepage, I'll be very happy to test multibyte encodings,
but it is a bit complicated to verify them without real world examples...

> ncpfs:
> + Assumes only 8bit nls codepages are used. Will most likely fail (not
> crash, but fail) if the local page/charset is a 16bit charset.
> + Not tested, but very similar to the 2.2 change (and the previous version
> of this that Petr thought was ok ... for 8bit that is)
I'll test it ASAP. But tomorrow evening I'm leaving Prague and I'll
have only 28k8 modem access until next monday...
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz


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