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-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-08-13
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-11-27
Copyright (C) 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
@@ -7,6 +7,20 @@ Please send GNU C library bug reports using the `glibcbug' script to
<bugs@gnu.org>. Questions and suggestions should be send to
<bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
+Version 2.2.1
+
+* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
+ selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
+ character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
+ to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
+ message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
+
+ $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
+
+ to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
+
+ Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
+
Version 2.2
* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's