Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 01:04:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Nikolai Saoukh <nms@otdel-1.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004060055480.16140-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <20000406091824.A1625@Draculina.otdel-1.org>
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On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Nikolai Saoukh wrote:
> > 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".
I am absolutely certain that my knowledge of the cyrillic encodings
usage and history that I have got in fourteen years of dealing with them
is complete.
--
Alex
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