[Scilab-Dev] Non Unicode language locale patch for Windows and Linux

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello

As we say in French "bien joué". It works perfectly for me ! Well done.
I have now to see deeper how you did it and include this in the trunk.

Many thanks for this,
Sylvestre


Le mercredi 11 juin 2008 à 01:41 +0800, Yung-Jang Lee a écrit :
> Hi, all :
> 
> Attached is my test patch for locales which is not subset of UNICODE
> for Scilab5Beta2. 
> 
> I have tested it under Windows and Linux for Chinese-Traditional
> (zh_TW , with windows Code Page 950 , Linux with LANG=zh_TW.BIG5 and
> LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 ) and Chinese-Simplified (zh_CN Linux,
> LANG=zh_CN.GB2312 , LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8)  and have the corrected
> results(ref. to my PNG files).
> 
> According to  the documents about Windows Code Page
> ( http://www.science.co.il/Language/Locale-Codes.asp)  and
> corresponding characters set
> (http://www.science.co.il/Language/Character-Sets.asp), the only code
> page that don't need a locale to UTF8 convert is CP1252 (iso-8859-1).
> So, I use following rules to trigger the convert (function
> openLocaleToUTFConverter in file localetoutf.c)
> 
>    Under Windows : if code page is not CP1252
>    Under Linux       : if language locale explicit set to non
> unicode,for examples zh_TW.BIG5, zh_CN.GB2312,..
> 
> Hope it work for  other  languages. 
> 
> YungLee    
>