Re: [PATCH] hd44780-charmap.h imon.c Russian charmaps

On 29.03.2011 21:01, Yura Scheglyuk wrote:
>         Hi!
>
> I made the new version of two additional Russian charmaps - CP-1251
> (Windows-1251) and ISO 8859-5 according principle of previous patch of
> koi8-r charmap. I removed pseudo-graphics symbols because it's rarely
> used and remapping symbols like HEART and so on.
>
> Markus, could you please commit this patch? If you'll approve this
> patch all Russian users will say you "SPASIBO!".
>
> There are a lot of lcdproc clients like XBMC, VDRs etc. For example,
> CP1251 used in XBMC and XBMC does not contains KOI8-R translation;
> ISO-8859-5 used in XBMC and some VDR packages - russian EPG comes from
> satellites in ISO-8859-5 charset. Now users have to patch ALL software
> projecs to map international charmaps to VFD charmaps. Therefore I
> think that adding mapping of input characters in ONE lcdproc project
> is the best way to get international (not only russian but Cyrillic at
> all - Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, etc.) users support. In this
> case lcdproc will have complete Russian solution "out of the box" and
> this can lead to wide growing of UNIX popularization among users.

Hi,

originally I was not a friend of adding these additional mappings as
they will encourage more users to implement mappings from other
languages and I think LCDproc should not need to cope with different
input character sets on its own.

Instead one solution would be to map Anything->Unicode->HD44780, e.g.
using libiconv. Unfortunately nothing like Unicode->HD44780 exists to my
knowledge so we will end up using our own mapping tables again and using
wide characters in the server core will require extensive rework of it
and I don't even think of doing this.

Therefore, if you agree on having those tables as a compile time option
(e.g. ./configure --with-extra-encodings) I am happy to commit them.

Regards,
Markus