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Re: UTF-8 in lynx

Followup to:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.991027111252.52323E-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
By author:    Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> E.g. I'd like UTF-8 display and transcoding to work in Lynx even on some
> martian paltform with nothing resembling glibc.  So we have to roll our
> own (string transformations, character counting, workaround for curses
> problems, etc).
> 

I would recommend doing the interfaces as libraries, with the same
interfaces as glibc.  Then you can use autoconf to get a much more
lightweight binary on modern systems.  Besides, that way someone else
could use your code if they wanted to.

	-hpa
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