Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 20:14:04 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: denis@satty.npi.msu.su (Denis V Kalinin) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers), freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions) Subject: Re: syscons fonts Message-ID: <199606230314.UAA06578@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960622202209.1973B-100000@satty.npi.msu.su> from "Denis V Kalinin" at Jun 22, 96 08:32:27 pm
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Greetings! > I do not recommend you to dig this. > As far as I understand historicaly > it appeared to be more than 10 different > syscons for russian language. > > KOI-7, KOI-8, CP1251, CP866, ISO-8859-5, EBSDEC ( or something > similar) and each of them has it's own modifications (shifted etc.). > There's no real way to choose the one from them as > russian (don't ask why). > ISO-8859-* is a international standard for syscons ( it exists > but noone actually uses it except XOpen ). > > Can someone explain/name the iso-*, cp866-* and koi8-* fonts? I guess the question I was asking is for a NAME for these fonts. For example, cp850 would be "Multilingual/Latin I", cp865 would be "Nordic", etc. koi8 would be "Russian"? "Cyrillic"?? And, is "iso-" ISO8859-1, -2, -3, etc.?? > > And the purpose of the 8x14 fonts? These are for 43 line EGA, I've been told. > > And the differences between the "", "b" and "c" versions of > > the 866 and koi8 fonts? "Stylistic" differences...?
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