[Gpsbabel-code] ann: quiet time & charset transformations

[Robert L. <rob...@us...>]

It's my intent to release a new GPSBabel within the next two weeks.
We've had an amazing amount of contributions (thanx!) and I'd like to
enter a short quiet time of testing, doc updates, and so on.  Anything
you can do that helps get us closer to release would be appreciated.

We've had a long standing opportunity to handle character set
transformations better.  It's something I've not really understood
well enough to tackle, but Olaf had a reason to take it head-on.  He's
produced a set of code to handle character encoding transformations.  So
if you're downloading a pocket query from geocaching.com (in UTF-8) and
are sending it Mapsource Europe (ISO-8859-x) and to your Garmin receiver
(ASCII) and to your Palm/OS (cp125x) we stand a much better chance of
getting all the characters either mapped correctly or robustly decayed
to something that's still readable.

This work is just invasive enough that I don't want to check it in while
I'm preparing for a release.  To save Olaf and myself synchronization
problems and still get it in the hands of others, I've just created a
new branch for that work.  Interested parties can check that out in CVS
on the branch named 'cet' ('cvs up -d -r cet' will move your tree to
that branch. 'cvs co -r cet gpsbabel ...' can be used to get you a new
tree.

I won't be checking anything other than CET work to that branch and
shortly after the release, I do plan to fold that into the development
trunk.

RJL