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Adding a new encoding to GNU C library
- From: Alexander Shopov <ash at contact dot bg>
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: Kaloian Doganov <kaloian at doganov dot org>
- Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:53:59 +0200
- Subject: Adding a new encoding to GNU C library
Hi glibc hackers,
I and my co-developer would like to add a new encoding to be supported
by glibc. The encoding is the cyrillic MIK encoding that is mainly
popular in Bulgaria.
More formal information about the encoding is given in the always
helpful cyrillic soup of Czyborra:
http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html
And some information on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIK_Code_page
The MIK code page came into existence due to some very ancient 8086
compatible machnines produced locally.
However - due to this fact - it is extensively used in some legacy
systems. We hope to get some of those things gradually migrated or (if
not possible) gracefully plugged into by some GNU/Linux updates.
It will be most convenient for us if we had this encoding in the GNU C
library.
So - could someone point me to the proper way to do this - a former mail
discussion, documentation, bug report - whatever so that we can prepare:
patches, docs, test cases that can be susequently merged into glibc?
I hoped that glibc was migrated to subversion so I could get the links
between commits and have an overall idea of what is to be changed to get
a new encoding, however - glibc is still using CVS an changes are per file.
I am not subscribed currently to this list - I see it is a very high
volume one. PLease cc me directly. I will still check the archives anyway.
Kind regards:
al_shopov