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Re: Using localedef to define custom charmaps
On 06/11/2018 12:51 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 06/11/2018 06:49 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> However, once you've done the work of using the charmap to build
>> the output locale data ... why do you need it anymore?
>>
>> Conversions will be handled by gconv converters after that.
>
> What if there's no gconv converter for my charmap?
Are we talking in the abstract here?
We should write converters for the character maps we support.
It would be great to have "symmetric" support in this way for
all the character maps.
I imagine some simple character maps could be automatically
driven by the existing data.
Cheers,
Carlos.