[Bug localedata/2625] New: Added support for MIK encoding

[Bug localedata/2625] New: Added support for MIK encoding

[ash at contact dot bg]

Added is a patch for MIK encoding.
patch is produced with diff -Naur
patch is against CVS HEAD about 2006-04-27 04:16:31 

Summary of changes:

* iconvdata/testdata/MIK: added testfile
* iconvdata/testdata/MIK..UTF8: added testfile
* iconvdata/Makefile:
       ** modules: added MIK
       ** distribute: added mik.c
       ** gen-8bit-gap-modules: added mik
* iconvdata/TESTS: added MIK
* iconvdata/gconv-modules: added MIK
* iconvdata/mik.c: new file, no holes, uses 8bit-gap.c
* iconvdata/tst-tables.sh: added MIK
* localedata/charmaps/MIK: added the MIK charmap

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           Summary: Added support for MIK encoding
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
        AssignedTo: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: ash at contact dot bg
                CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
 GCC build triplet: i386-linux-elf
  GCC host triplet: i386-linux-elf
GCC target triplet: i386-linux-elf


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[Bug localedata/2625] Added support for MIK encoding

[ash at contact dot bg]

------- Additional Comments From ash at contact dot bg  2006-05-01 05:58 -------
Created an attachment (id=992)
 --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=992&action=view)
MIK codepage support

* iconvdata/testdata/MIK: added testfile
* iconvdata/testdata/MIK..UTF8: added testfile
* iconvdata/Makefile:
       ** modules: added MIK
       ** distribute: added mik.c
       ** gen-8bit-gap-modules: added mik
* iconvdata/TESTS: added MIK
* iconvdata/gconv-modules: added MIK
* iconvdata/mik.c: new file, no holes, uses 8bit-gap.c
* iconvdata/tst-tables.sh: added MIK
* localedata/charmaps/MIK: added the MIK charmap


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[Bug localedata/2625] Added support for MIK encoding

[drepper at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2006-05-01 06:10 -------
Where is this used?  Point me to some references.

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[drepper at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2006-05-01 14:19 -------
I found references myself.  The changes look OK and I applied them.

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[Bug localedata/2625] Added support for MIK encoding

[ash at contact dot bg]

------- Additional Comments From ash at contact dot bg  2006-05-02 08:38 -------
I am adding references here for anyone to be on the clear about MIK.
MIK is a Bulgarian encoding that was used in the 16-bit Bulgarian produced
Pravetz computers.
The computers were Intel x86 (8086) compatible.
The MIK is based on IBM437 codepage, and some of the box drawing characters were
replaced by cyrillic letters.
The codepage gained a lot of popularity in Bulgaria throughout the years -
legacy DOS systems, etc. Now there are a lot of banking, transport, booking,
accounting software packages using it.
So today we have to upgrade those systems to something more modern. Libc support
of MIK will allow for every application to operate on MIK encoded data. This
also includes the appplications based on GNU classpath.

References for the the MIK codepage itself:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIK_Code_page
2. http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html
3. http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/pipermail/ls-dict/2006-April/002760.html
There are 4 different characters in [1] and [2]. GNU libc support is based on
[1]! The reason is that MIK is based on IBM437. [3] is the translators'
discussion on these problems. (the resource is in Bulgarian).

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