Re: Character maps - GNU recode.

["Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 03:25:48PM -0800, mmadore wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

We could.  We could even have it build a static library and link it statically
with the lib5250 library.  On the other hand, GNU recode is not a particularly
*small* package.

This might be a maintenance issue, though.

>  
> Mike
> 

-Jay
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