Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 02:20:11 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: Sergey Shkonda <serg@bcs1.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch to talk client Message-ID: <TkhGlVmWO1@ache.dialup.demos.ru> In-Reply-To: <199510130722.AA01883@bcs1.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua>; from Sergey Shkonda at Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:22:05 %2B0200 (UKR) References: <199510130722.AA01883@bcs1.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua>
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In message <199510130722.AA01883@bcs1.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua> Sergey
Shkonda writes:
>>
>> >
>> > There are patch to talk client for support 8-bit
>> > talking (for example in russian language)
>>
>> I don't understand the need for a translation table. If the talkers
>> on both ends are using the same 8 bit character set (ie: KOI-8), then
>> as long as their displays display the characters they type as themselves,
>> a translation table should be unnecessary.
> If the talkers on both ends are using not same character set (ie: KOI-8
>and cp866) then translation table should be very nessesary (cp866 used when
>many machines under MSDOS connected to local net.
As I already said in previous letter it is much easy to have the same
code table on both ends and not violate POSIX then fix _each_and_every_
interactive client to deal with various tables. Moreover, if you even
fix all of them for FreeBSD, you can't do it for Sun's f.e.
BTW, you can find MSDOS keyboard driver which cat switch cp866/koi8-r
by hotkey at ftp://ftp.kiae.su/msdos/sys/cyrillic/
--
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