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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: X11R6.1 available...  Should we use?
To: nnd@itfs.nsk.su (Nickolay N. Dudorov)
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 11:07:30 -0700 (MST)
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> =?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) wrote:
> > > 
> > >         FYI: XFree86 3.1.2E is now available...
> > > 
> > 
> > Can we upgrade our ports x11/XFree86 to 3.1.2E please?
> 
> 	Do you have ports/russian/X.language for 3.1.2D or E ?
> 
> There is some support for koi8-r in 3.1.2D, but it looks
> strange and incomplete for me - isn't it your baby ? ;-)

I'm still really curious what KOI-8 buys you that the ISO 8859
character set does not.

Maybe I'm insane, but I don't think it matters which bit pattern
represents which character, as long as all the characters are
there...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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