Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 417 from 2003/8/18
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Leo wrote:
I am using cross-compilation and if I remember correctly it's something like gcc5. Does it change anything regarding encoding?
No, it does not change anything. Your app should come with English and ISO-8859-1 for the builtin defaults. Or you can use ObjectiveC and then UTF-8 comes for free.
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What's the best practices for MorphOS (only) CLI apps that need to be localized: do people use charset library or do they use ISO?
English/ISO-8859-1 for the built-in language and locale/catalogs for translations.
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What happens with locale catalogs: what should catalogs .cd files be encoded in?
The catalogs need to be encoded in ISO-8859-1 and .ct files encoded in the default ISO-8859-* associated with the catalog's language.
Edit: I've misread your original post. You may not output UTF-8 text straight into the shell - that is not supported for compatibility reasons. In that case, either use charsets or Objective-C to output text in the native ISO codepage.
Ok, that's what I thought.
Where can I find some documentation on how to convert an UTF8 string to locale codepage using charsets.library?
Nothing hurts a project more than developers not taking the time to let their community know what is going on.
