[PATCH] UTF-8 support for minicom
Adam Lackorzynski
adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Sun Jul 17 10:46:41 UTC 2005
Alioth got upgraded recently and now I got a moderator approval mail for
mails in the queue. Unbelievable! I didn't know of this work. :/
On Sun Jul 11, 2004 at 16:44:24 +0200, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> Hello,
> The attached patches mainly add UTF-8 support for minicom. It is possible
> that they also break semigraphics in 8-bit locales, but I can't
> test that (there is apparently no BBS left in my area).
Cool.
> * minicom-ansi.patch:
> Converts minicom source to better ISO C, mainly making sure that every
> called function has a prototype in scope, and properly using <stdarg.h>.
> Also adds the const qualifier where appropriate.
I did this work some time ago myself, so this somehow clashes.
> * minicom-tools.patch:
> Updates minicom to newer autotools and gettext release; this is not strictly
> necessary for the following patches (I hope), but I needed to do something
> like this anyway in order to work on the other parts.
> Note that most of the changes are gnerated files, real changes are only
> to acconfig.h, acinclude.m4, configure.in, and all Makefile.am files.
I upgraded minicom to some newer version recently too...
> * minicom-czech0.patch:
> An important bug fix to Czech translation.
> * minicom-i18n.patch:
> The main part, conversion of the window code and the rest to properly
> handle multibyte encodings.
> Removes the pre-output character conversion ("IBM->ISO-8859-1"), it works
> only for 8859-1 users and it can be done using the generic translation
> tables anyway.
> Fixes reading of configuration files written by minicom in UTF-8 locales
> (the line buffer was too small)
> Fixes a format string bug in the 'log' script command
> Note that this patch doesn't add support for multibyte communication
> over the serial line; the keyboard input code makes this difficult and
> all I use minicom for is experimenting with commands for my cellular phone.
> * minicom-l10n.patch:
> Fixes a few instances of strings that were not marked for translation well,
> and adds an updated Czech translation.
Would you like to rediff your patches? If not (no time etc.) I'll try to
work through the patches later...
Thanks,
Adam
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