I think the 8-bit character bit can be tackled with the glib function, it just needs to be done.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:45:25PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > Holger, the submitter of our other bug, suggested to post the requested > pal howto to debaday.debian.net. I think this is a good idea and a way > to get more users. I did already take some notes and will publish them > as a first draft on wiki.debian.org after they have been further > extended, but it might take some time until I have finished this. Yeah, would be nice. > Whilst thinking about ways to use pal effectively I had the idea of > a possible new feature: an additional option "exec" in pal.conf that > would almost behave like "file" but would use popen() instead of fopen() > (tscreen uses such a feature). This would it make possible to run e.g. > vcard2pal directly from pal instead of saving its output into a file > just to feed it to pal later. Parsing commandline arguments and passing > them to popen() would not be necessary since one could easily use > a shell wrapper in such cases. Interesting idea. I personally probably don't have a use for it (yet) but it shouldn't be too hard for someone to implement. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while > boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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