From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 11 16:36:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA14435 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 16:36:36 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA14429 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 16:36:34 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA25089; Wed, 11 Jan 95 17:30:29 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501120030.AA25089@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Localization stuff? To: ache@astral.msk.su (Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 95 17:30:28 MST Cc: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" at Jan 12, 95 02:56:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In message <199501112040.WAA01675@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> Andrew V. > Stesin writes: > > > Any pointer to ftp'able Runes UTF coding doco? Samples? > > I beleive that Runes comes from Plan9. Lower values corresponds > ASCII, upper is multibyte chars, don't know more about it. Check out the standards FAQ on news:comp.std.internat or on ftp://rtfm.mit.edu. Also research.att.com and taligent both have code implementations. I personally am not a big fan of runic encoding. You shouldn't be either, unless you use nothing but US ASCII *or* don't care that your file size is unrelated to the number of characters actually in a text file. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.