From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Locales with legacy codepages
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:43:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140916164346.GA23340@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8b7ab9c-255c-457a-909b-9aa76af3a6fc@email.android.com>
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:23:35AM +0800, Рысь wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running a server which needs to speak with connected clients on
> a legacy codepage (in particular, cp1251, widely used by Russian
> people on Windows), and it has built-in gettext translation which
> can be activated only by setting a proper locale.
> However I don't know how musl supports locales with legacy
> codepages, if even. I don't fully understand how such translations
> work, so if there any ways to make legacy codepage locales work?
>
> On previous glibc system I started such server with
> LC_ALL=ru_RU.CP1251 environment variable and appropriate locale was
> defined with localedef.
>
> I have an option to convert all outgoing locale messages with iconv
> if musl does not have such support.
Using iconv is the the way to do this with musl. The only encoding
supported as the native locale encoding is UTF-8 and there are no
plans to change this. Since musl's iconv is not optimized for
conversion _to_ legacy codesets, if you find this is a performance
bottleneck, you might do better just to skip iconv and use your own
conversion function that's specific to cp1251.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-16 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-16 3:23 Рысь
2014-09-16 16:43 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2014-09-17 1:49 ` Рысь
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