[Lazarus] gethostbyname() on linux systems.

David Touzeau david at touzeau.eu
Mon Oct 19 19:51:27 CEST 2009


Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:

> On 19/10/2009, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  How to I convert a file that contains text in the DOS charset to
>>  UTF-8. I need this to work under Linux and Windows.
>>
>>  The DOS charset characters used, are for box drawing and arrows. They
>>  currently appear on my system (Linux) as follows:
>>
>>      ÄÄÄstatementÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
>
>
> I found the relevant character mapping tables at the Unicode website -
> mapping from DOS codepage to unicode characters. The one I am
> interested in is CP437 to Unicode.
>
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/
>
>
> Is such mappings already implemented in Lazarus somewhere?

I added it to lcl/lconvencoding.pas.
This is also used by the IDE context menu.


Mattias





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