From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 27 13:22:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA08196 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 13:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA08188 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 13:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA08835; Mon, 27 May 1996 13:16:34 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605272016.NAA08835@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: X11R6.1 available... Should we use? To: dk@rock.lot.kiev.ua (Dmitry Kohmanyuk) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 13:16:34 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605250725.KAA29065@rock.lot.kiev.ua> from "Dmitry Kohmanyuk" at May 25, 96 10:25:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.