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. :)

Vitaliy

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