Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 08:14:56 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Translators needed urgently! Message-ID: <199505040314.IAA14182@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <9505031634.AA13168@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 3, 95 10:34:03 am
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> > > I'm going for only the european languages as I'm not certain I'll be > > > able to fit the Japanese fonts on the first floppy. I can certainly > > > do ISO-8859-1, which gets me pretty much all the european ones, and > > > koi8 is also small. If I *can* manage Japanese then I certainly will, > > ^^^^ > > Is it possible to support the 2nd russian encoding, CP866 ? Koi-8 > > is popular among Relcom (UUCP and IP - based network) and CP866 is > > popular among corporate users (for data bases etc.). Really I use > > Koi-8 for reading of russian e-mail only and I'll throw it away as soon > > as I'll have installed a converter. > > Is CP866 any relation to ISO 8859-5 (I think Cyrillic is '5'...)? It's "loosely" relation. They have the equal encoding of the second half of lowercase letters :-) The problem of CP866 is that it uses codes 128...(128+31) for uppercase letters and has a gap between halves of lowercase letters (for graphic cheracters in IBM encoding). 8859-5 is likely the same but it has no such gap and everything before gap is shifted up to the place of the gap. IMO 8859-5 is best choice but both KOI-8 and CP866 are used for some years (IMHO _too_ many years for KOI-8) and have big groups of users sticked to them. > I think a converter should be relatively easy, as long as all of the > code points are there. You could probably do it with a single 'tr' > command. Yes but this converter needs to be installed somewhere in internals of mail subsystem and I don't know how to do that :-( Serge Babkin ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" ! Chelyabinsk, Russia
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