Date: Wed, 3 May 95 10:34:03 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Cc: jkh@morton.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Translators needed urgently! Message-ID: <9505031634.AA13168@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199505030346.IAA04407@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at May 3, 95 08:46:22 am
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> > I'm going for only the european languages as I'm not certain I'll be > > able to fit the Japanese fonts on the first floppy. I can certainly > > do ISO-8859-1, which gets me pretty much all the european ones, and > > koi8 is also small. If I *can* manage Japanese then I certainly will, > ^^^^ > Is it possible to support the 2nd russian encoding, CP866 ? Koi-8 > is popular among Relcom (UUCP and IP - based network) and CP866 is > popular among corporate users (for data bases etc.). Really I use > Koi-8 for reading of russian e-mail only and I'll throw it away as soon > as I'll have installed a converter. Is CP866 any relation to ISO 8859-5 (I think Cyrillic is '5'...)? I think a converter should be relatively easy, as long as all of the code points are there. You could probably do it with a single 'tr' command. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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