Support for multi-byte charsets

[Roland Illig]

Jindrich Novy wrote:
> Hello Andy, Pasha, mc-devel,
> 
> On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 17:04 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
>>Pasha Zubkov wrote:
>>
>>>Does anybody srart working on support for mb charsets? Or it's any way
>>>to work with mc in UTF-8 enabled systems?

First, I don't like it if you talk about UTF-8 patches. There are many 
more character encodings than just UTF-8. I therefore proposed the name 
"extended character sets".

> Yes, the UTF-8 support is planned to be included in mc-4.7.0 as far as
> I'm having a look into the TODO list. Pasha, you can use benefits of the
> UTF-8 patch in the Fedora Core mc. Even if it lacks a general concept,
> the important thing for you is that it works pretty well and I'm happy
> to see only a few bugreports related to UTF-8 patch coming recently from
> FC users.

Last time I looked at these patches they consisted of many, many 
#ifdef's. I think I already said that having these #ifdef's wouldn't be 
too good. I developed the files called ecs.c and ecs.h as a replacement 
for these patches, but got next-to-nothing feedback.

These things need some discussion before being integrated into mc.

Roland