[omniORB] New codeset

[Duncan Grisby]

On Wednesday 17 December, ondrej at frcatel.fri.utc.sk wrote:

> 	this message is intened probably for Duncan, but anyone else is free to
> answer too. I'd like to add new codeset to the omniorb codeset library.
> The desired one is the win1250, thus the easiest way would be to slightly
> modify an existing win1251 and save it under new id (IANA etc..). I'have
> already added the new id into codeSets.h, copied file cs-cp1251.cc to
> cs-cp1250.cc, changed all string from 1251 to 1250, added the new file do
> dir.mk and added a build macro to omniCodeSets.cc. I also created the
> toUCS lookup table. The problem is, how to create the remaining tables. I
> worry that I do not understand the meaning of the names frUCS00, frUCS04,
> frUCS20, frUCS21 and their arrangement in frUCS array and thus cannot
> rearrange them for the new codeset. I would really appreciate some
> comments on how to do that. Maybe this message should have been placed in
> omniorb-dev, but I hope you'll forgive me :-).

The frUCS** tables are the bottom half of a two level look-up table to
map UCS-2 to the target 8 bit codeset (in this case cp1250). The
tables are generated by the bin/scripts/make8bitcx.py script. The
frUCS table is the top half of the look-up table.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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