From owner-freebsd-i18n Thu Nov 22 7:38:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C3F37B416 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 07:38:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAMFcEh63167; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:38:14 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:38:13 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: B.Anastasatos@Freemail.gr Cc: freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACS (Alternate Character Set) support in ISO-8859-7 greek codepage Message-ID: <20011122153813.GA62978@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20010727132229.B8030-300000@idemnia.ath.cx> <3BFCCE33.A73F605E@MyRealBox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BFCCE33.A73F605E@MyRealBox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i 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, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:06:43 +0200, ??????????? ????????? wrote: > ISO-8859-7 supports only 4 out of the 32 ACS characters. On > the other hand, there are about 35 "unused" positions in ISO-7, > are more than enough if somebody wanted to add ACS glyphs to > ISO-8859-7 console fonts. I noticed that this is exactly what > happens in the FreeBSD implementation of ISO-8859-2. No, fonts must conforms standards exactly. 8859-2 font must be fixed instead. Otherwise it gives user wrong impression that ACS characters present in standard, so he start to use them and become incompatible with the rest of the world. -- 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