From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 27 13:53:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10505 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 13:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [144.206.136.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10478 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 13:52:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA27363 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Mon, 27 May 1996 23:46:21 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Mon, 27 May 96 23:46:21 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA00677; Tue, 28 May 1996 00:42:41 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <199605272042.AAA00677@astral.msk.su> Subject: Re: X11R6.1 available... Should we use? To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 00:42:41 +0400 (MSD) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nnd@itfs.nsk.su, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605272019.NAA08845@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at "May 27, 96 01:19:11 pm" From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL19 (25)] 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. > > > > Real common practice can't be changed and requires KOI8-R now. > > It not requires 8859-5 at all, so why bother to support it? > > Only because it looks "better" from someone point of view? > > I could make the same argument regarding i18n support, or XPG/3 > or XPG/4 support, or ISO 2022 support, or ISO 10646 support... > etc.: "We Americans believe everyone should use US ASCII, and > if you have to learn English to do it...". It's the same > argument. Your analogy is incorrect, I say different thing: "We Americans believe Americans should use US ASCII, and if you have to learn English to do it...". -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849