Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:19:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, <i18n@FreeBSD.ORG>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, <anholt@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: koi8-r is obsoleted by koi8-u (Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontCyrillic) Message-ID: <20020904180906.W34486-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <200209041155.15033.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Mikhail Teterin wrote: [SNIP] MT>I see nothing wrong with obsoleted things being replaced by their modern MT>equivalents. There is no point in keeping the obsolete bits, such as MT>koi8-r charsets -- especially in X11, but also in the syscons, BTW. MT> MT>As you confirmed some time ago, none of the pseudo-graphics replaced MT>in the koi8-r by koi8-u are used by the termcaps anyway. Removing the MT>share/syscons/fonts/koi8-r* would be quite welcome. Temporary aliases MT>can be suggested to ease the transition. As long as one is able to refer to the fonts by means of a koi8-r alias, replacing is probably ok. To read russian it would not occur to me that I have to select a koi8-u font after beeing used for many years to use koi8-r. I suppose that there are a lot of documents, HTML pages and what ever out there, that try to use koi8-r. NB: RFC 2319 names koi8-u as KOI8 (Ukrainian). And how about koi8-c fonts? Are there any available? harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.gmd.de, brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message
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