From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 13 00:46:02 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA19308 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 00:46:02 -0700 Received: from frya.zgik.zaporizhzhe.ua (ZGIK-1-ELIS-14.4K.zgik.zaporizhzhe.ua [193.124.62.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA19303 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 00:45:34 -0700 Received: from zgik.UUCP by frya.zgik.zaporizhzhe.ua with UUCP id JAA26159; (8.6.11/vak/1.8e) Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:39:11 +0200 Received: by relay1.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua (uumail v1.5/ache) id AA06220; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:25:08 +0200 Received: from bcs1.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua (bcs1.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua [193.124.62.29]) by bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA06217; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:25:07 +0200 Received: by bcs1.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua id AA01883 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for hackers@freebsd.org); Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:22:08 +0200 From: Sergey Shkonda Message-Id: <199510130722.AA01883@bcs1.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua> Subject: Re: Patch to talk client To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:22:05 +0200 (UKR) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510121751.KAA15487@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 12, 95 10:51:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL0] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 866 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > > There are patch to talk client for support 8-bit > > talking (for example in russian language) > > I don't understand the need for a translation table. If the talkers > on both ends are using the same 8 bit character set (ie: KOI-8), then > as long as their displays display the characters they type as themselves, > a translation table should be unnecessary. If the talkers on both ends are using not same character set (ie: KOI-8 and cp866) then translation table should be very nessesary (cp866 used when many machines under MSDOS connected to local net. > > The 8-bit cleanliness should go in; the translation table should not. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > -- Sergey Shkonda, serg@bcs1.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua