Re: Character maps - GNU recode.

[mmadore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Jason M. Felice wrote:

> The drawbacks are that most distributions don't have GNU recode installed by
> default (I'm assuming, RH6 and RH6.1 don't, neither does RH5.2).
> Another drawback is that recode may or may not be portable to Windows, 
>although
> my suggestion for Windows is just to provide translation maps like we are 
> currently doing, except that Windows can accept Unicode for text display
> instead of our currently hard-coded iso-8859-1.

Since recode is GPL couldn't we just include a copy of it in the tn5250
distribution?  Configure could check to see if it's already installed.  If
not build and install the included copy.
 
Mike

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