From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 20: 1:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (dsl-206.169.4.82.wenet.com [206.169.4.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D17BB37B6A3 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 20:01:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA15947; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 20:02:28 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 20:02:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits To: Patryk Zadarnowski Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" , Jason , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200004060101.LAA05805@mycenae.ilion.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: > > without destabilizing "standards" by constant changes. > > Can it? People have been begging ISO to standarise 8 bit charsets for ages. > If you tried to exchange information in polish in the pre-8859 days, you'd > know why (about five radically different charsets in common use) Besides, if > the alphabet for information interchange doesn't deserve standarising, I don't > know what does. Can you guess, which one of of multiple cyrillic charsets never was actually used in Russia? ISO 8859-5. And which is still the standard in Russian-language newsgroups, for russian Unix users and most of Russian-language web pages? koi8-r, one of the oldest cyrillic charsets, primarily designed to keep "intuitive" mapping to ASCII, to remain usable after passing through characters-mangling old software and to be readable on 7-bit dumb terminals -- and the last mentioned property is still saving a lot of trouble for Russians that use mail-to-pager systems. History is more complex than some people think. -- Alex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Excellent.. now give users the option to cut your hair you hippie! -- Anonymous Coward To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message