From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 17 06:54:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA25615 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 06:54:08 -0700 Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA25610 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 06:54:05 -0700 Received: from exalt.x.org by expo.x.org id AA00350; Tue, 17 Oct 95 09:53:33 -0400 Received: from localhost by exalt.x.org id JAA08843; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 09:53:32 -0400 Message-Id: <199510171353.JAA08843@exalt.x.org> To: ache@astral.msk.su Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:31:34 EST. Organization: X Consortium Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 09:53:31 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In message <199510170809.SAA07948@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> David > Dawes writes: > > >If they ship Cyrillic fonts with their next release, they've indicated > >(to me at least) that their preference is to use the ISO8859-5 encoding. > > Sigh. Why they not asking what preferences russsians have? Because the X Consortium is a Standards Body. When there is an existing standard for something we prefer to follow it (Like RFC 821/822). In the face of a "real" standard, a de facto standard doesn't count. > Oh, well, it doesn't matter. They'll force all of them to 8859-5. :-) Why do you say this? My impression is that most people prefer precompiled binaries from XFree86 over building from X Consortium source. XFree86 provides KOI8-R encoded fonts and locale support. Users can choose KOI8-R or ISO8859-5 as long as there are fonts for both encodings. Nobody is "forcing" anyone to do anything. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY X Consortium