From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 2 10:10:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14714 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 10:10:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [194.93.177.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14580 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 10:08:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04265; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:04:18 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:04:18 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Max Gotlib Cc: gestura@nyherji.is, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: russian language mixes in sendmail Message-ID: <19981102200418.A4227@ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Max Gotlib , gestura@nyherji.is, questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <002566AA.0057AC58.00@smtpnotes.nyherji.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.15i In-Reply-To: ; from Max Gotlib on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:02:50PM +0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:02:50PM +0500, Max Gotlib wrote: > Hi! > > Seems to be the problem of multiply russian > character sets used in e-mail conversations. > There are at least three widely used charsets: > koi8-r (koi8-u for Ukrainian) used in unix environments, > win1251 M$ proposed charset and cp866 (also known > as "alternative") IBM proposed charset. Beside these, > there is iso-8859-5 (used in some unixies and Mac) > and several 7-bit alternatives (koi7, gost, ...). > There is de-facto standard for the "transportation" > encoding - koi8-r (but not de-yuro). > So, the problem (IMHO) is in user's mailreaders, > that could not "understand" each other. The possible > solution is to use "charcter-set-on-the-fly-converters", > but i'm not sure that it is sutable in "multilingual" > mail relaing... > > Best regards, > Max. > Use the latest version of Mutt - the greatest MUA. It can handle all known character sets, and you can define your own without recompiling the sources. Best regards, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message