Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 00:42:41 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nnd@itfs.nsk.su, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11R6.1 available... Should we use? Message-ID: <199605272042.AAA00677@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199605272019.NAA08845@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at "May 27, 96 01:19:11 pm"
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> > > I'm still really curious what KOI-8 buys you that the ISO 8859 > > > character set does not. > > > > Real common practice can't be changed and requires KOI8-R now. > > It not requires 8859-5 at all, so why bother to support it? > > Only because it looks "better" from someone point of view? > > I could make the same argument regarding i18n support, or XPG/3 > or XPG/4 support, or ISO 2022 support, or ISO 10646 support... > etc.: "We Americans believe everyone should use US ASCII, and > if you have to learn English to do it...". It's the same > argument. Your analogy is incorrect, I say different thing: "We Americans believe Americans should use US ASCII, and if you have to learn English to do it...". -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849
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