Subj : Re: Changes in golded+ sources
To : Nicholas Boel
From : Vitaliy Aksyonov
Date : Wed Nov 08 2023 12:13 pm
Hello Nicholas.
07 Nov 23 16:47, you wrote to me:
VA>> Ivonv support do work in some cases, but it doesn't cover all the
VA>> cases and you still need translation tables, which is odd. My
VA>> plan is to use iconv without translation tables.
NB> I think when I tried it last (years ago) it broke more things than it
NB> fixed.
It is incompleted work. And it implemented in weird way. And most importantly it wont work with source multibyte charset. But it will after my changes.
NB> I will definitely follow your work and help with testing where I can!
Great. The more testers available with different configurations - the better.
VA>> To set correct charset level in kludge I may need to introduce
VA>> new configuration parameter, because iconv know nothing about
VA>> FidoNet charset levels obviously.
NB> Is the level parameter even needed? I don't think anything actually
NB> uses it for whatever intended purpose it once had. If it wasn't there
NB> to begin with, I would have never saw the change, and you could have
NB> continued with your work without distraction. ;)
That parameter is not needed. Conversion code doesn't use it for actual conversion. But it's part of standard and need to be provided. :)
