[Mozilla Languages Enabling] [Schedule] [KOI8-U]

Mission

Implementation of koi8-u encoding in mozilla open source browser , as well as support of other Ukrainian language encodings which are in wide use.

Mailing list

History

• [committed] support for X11 (xfe)
  updated xfe patch is available

• [committed] unicode table patch
  fix for lib/libi18n/unicode/fromftp/othertbls/koi8u.txt around IE is U0404 bug from RFC2319

News

• patch for linking on FreeBSD

  this removes -rdynamic flag from compiler and also changes to .a linking for 4 libraries (looks like some bug in other place)

• patch for auto-detection of Ukrainian charsets in xfe

Tasks

• Support for winfe - work in progress
• support for macfe - work in progress; need testers
• automagical recognition of other ukrainian charsets - done for xfe (with tables for convertsion from/to koi8-u to any other charset of cp1251, mac, iso, and koi8-r), need support for winfe and macfe

Links

• How to Add Additional Charset Support to Mozilla
• RFC 2319: Ukrainian Character Set KOI8-U
• The Cyrillic Charset Soup
• .bdf fonts for koi-8u
  just extract them to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/koi8u/and then say
  ; xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/koi8u/ ; xset fp rehash

Coordinator

dk+mozilla@farm.org (Dmitry Kohmanyuk)