Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 13:16:34 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dk@rock.lot.kiev.ua (Dmitry Kohmanyuk) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11R6.1 available... Should we use? Message-ID: <199605272016.NAA08835@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605250725.KAA29065@rock.lot.kiev.ua> from "Dmitry Kohmanyuk" at May 25, 96 10:25:52 am
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> > 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. ;-) So you are saying that it buys you legacy apps. 8-). Personally, I'd go the recoding route... assuming all the characters are there. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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