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Re: UTF-8 in lynx

To: linux-utf8@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 in lynx
From: Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:38:08 +0100
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> > 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.

Does anyone have an autoconf recipe for detecting whether iconv or
librecode is available?

Edmund
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