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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP 
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 07:26:20 EST
From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>
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> As Terry Lambert wrote:
> > 
> > The problem with KOI-8 is that KOI-8 is a defacto standard, and is not
> > accepted by international standards bodies.  Mostly because the most
> > popular BBS software in the area picked it up instead of 8859-9.
> 
> The X Consortium finally agreed to accept koi8-r as a valid character
> set/encoding.
> 
> :-)

I'm glad I read through all of my mail before replying to this. David
Dawes' answer says it all!

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Kaleb KEITHLEY
X Consortium