FYI, if you would like to build 7.1 with the UTF-8 <--> other
encodings capability, you need to configure --enable-multibyte AND
--enable-unicode-conversion, and that would add a 1MB conversion table
linked to the backend.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:40:58AM +0100, Rehak Tamas wrote:
> >
> > > 3) upgrade to 7.1 that has the capability to do an automatic
> > > conversion between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1.
> >
> > i like to use deb packages and to use 7.1 i would have to upgrade
> > to woody (or even sid)...
>
> Not true. There are Debian source packages, and taking the source
> package from Debian 2.x, x>2 (woody/sid), you can easily build it
> on Debian 2.2 (potato).
>
> In fact, it seems likely that a 2.2 (potato) packaging of 7.1 should be
> available from somebody else anyhow. Oliver, do you plan to make the
> woody 7.1 package depend on any other package versions not in potato?
> If not, you can just use the 7.1 package directly on your Debian 2.2
> system.
>
> (Apologies to the rest for the Debian jargon.)
>
> Nathan Myers
> ncm@zembu.com