Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:18:24 +0400 From: Nikolai Saoukh <nms@otdel-1.org> To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000406091824.A1625@Draculina.otdel-1.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004051951070.15920-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>; from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:02:28PM -0700 References: <200004060101.LAA05805@mycenae.ilion.eu.org> <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004051951070.15920-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:02:28PM -0700, Alex Belits wrote: > 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. Wrong, you are comparing apples and oranges again -- cyrillic (8859-5) encoding with russian (koi8-r) one. Never say never -- if you do not know about 8859-5 usage is does not mean "not used by everyone". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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