Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 10:25:52 +0300 From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@rock.lot.kiev.ua> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11R6.1 available... Should we use? Message-ID: <199605250725.KAA29065@rock.lot.kiev.ua>
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In article <199605241807.LAA01418@phaeton.artisoft.com> you wrote: > > =?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) wrote: > I'm still really curious what KOI-8 buys you that the ISO 8859 > character set does not. > Maybe I'm insane, but I don't think it matters which bit pattern > represents which character, as long as all the characters are > there... it buys me reading russian-language 8-bit mail, news, and WWW pages without installing proxies and/or local mailers which do recoding (oh, well, and please don't tell me I should use MIME - the overall brokennsess of character conversion support is still widespread (can mail(1) do it, e.g.? ;-)) remember, russian is native language for many of us; imagine you have EBCDIC on your machine when almost everybody else uses ASCII. ;-)
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