From owner-freebsd-i18n Wed Sep 4 19:31:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB6437B400; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:31:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4951B43E3B; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:31:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: from pobrecita.freebsd.ru (ache@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.pp.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g852VUbq037541; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 06:31:30 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by pobrecita.freebsd.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g852VQTQ037540; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 06:31:26 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 06:31:25 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, Maxim Sobolev , anholt@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: koi8-r is obsoleted by koi8-u (Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontCyrillic) Message-ID: <20020905023124.GB37309@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200209031042.g83AgFON078508@freefall.freebsd.org> <200209040841.45490@aldan> <20020904140410.GA30776@nagual.pp.ru> <200209041155.15033.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <20020905021640.GA37309@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020905021640.GA37309@nagual.pp.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 06:16:42 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > 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. > Just recall an example understandable by non-Cyrillic related people: ISO 8859-15 differs from ISO 8859-1 only by 8 characters and is "modern", but nobody suggest to silently replace ISO 8859-1 fonts with 8859-15 fonts everywhere and so on. -- 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