Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 06:16:42 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, anholt@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: koi8-r is obsoleted by koi8-u (Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontCyrillic) Message-ID: <20020905021640.GA37309@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <200209041155.15033.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200209031042.g83AgFON078508@freefall.freebsd.org> <200209040841.45490@aldan> <20020904140410.GA30776@nagual.pp.ru> <200209041155.15033.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 11:57:17 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > Can you name one scenario, where someone would knowingly prefer a koi8-r > font over a koi8-u one? In other words, some real application, that This is not subject of user preferences or user choice. If some program request koi8-r, it must get koi8-r back exactly, because it *may* use its special chars. It seems you don't undertsand compatibility issues. If koi8-r can be replaced, it can be replaced by Unicode only. > As I mentioned already, koi8-r is obsoleted by koi8-u, let's move on. I have no time to educate ignorant people, but as FreeBDS localization authority, I explicetely forbid any attempts to replace koi8-r with something less compatible (i.e. not by Unicode). Is it clear? > . Windows-1251 is hardly a standard > . It is not at all compatible with the things you say it > can replace (unlike koi8-u, which is hard to distinguish > from koi8-r) > . It does not provide any more letters over the koi8-u <humor on> Windows-1251 is more suitable for modern Cyrillic typography needs then koi8-u. Lets move on, and replace obsoleted koi8-u not used anywhere. Missing rare letters are not valuable as typhography needs and can be replaced by other letters. </humor off> Enough on this thread from me, see my second paragraph from above as my final statement. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message
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