Re: Question about an old i18n bug in MC

[Rostislav Krasny <rosti bsd gmail com>]

On 7/10/05, Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org> wrote:
> Quoting Rostislav Krasny <rosti bsd gmail com>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is a well know i18n bug in Midnight Commander 4.6.0 (and older).
> > It cannot display the help and hints properly in any russian localized
> > system that is using any cyrillic codepage, except a KOI8-R. Is this
> > bug already fixed in the 4.6.1-pre5 or is it going to be fixed in the
> > final 4.6.1 release of Midnight Commander?
>
> No, it wasn't fixed and it won't be fixed in 4.6.1.  Fixing it would require
> support for charset translation, which is not standard across the OSes we
> support.

Charset translation could be implemented in the Midnight Commander
itself, independently from any OS. I wonder why it hadn't been done
yet?