CP866 and 1.0.0

[David Relson]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:44:13 +0100
Matthias Andree wrote:

...[snip]...

> What we want to know is the answer to: "Does this system support Unicode
> in UTF-8 transformation format?". Why should we then ask "Is this system
> running Solaris?" What if AIX had the same problem? I don't know, just a
> Gedankenexperiment. I'd suggest we try converting a few IANA charsets
> such as ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and if that fails, we'll assume
> --disable-unicode. If someone feels his system inadequately supported
> because it has the necessary tables albeit at different names, he can
> write the translation code, and if it's good enough, we'll merge it.
> 
> The code fragment I posted should be good enough for configure with
> minor adjustments. What do you think?
> 
> -- 
> Matthias Andree

The code fragment looked good. For sure it checks the common case.