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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:53:16 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Cc:        ache@astral.msk.su, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, kaleb@x.org
Subject:   Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199510182053.NAA00900@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510181200.IAA06678@lakes> from "Thomas David Rivers" at Oct 18, 95 08:00:00 am

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> > KOI8 is a peculiar locale in that it doesn't follow the 8859-x rules
> > like it should.  Like EBCDIC, it needs to die in the long term.  On
>                         ^^^^^^
> 
>   With IBM pushing so hard on their POSIX complaint (EBCDIC-based)
> OE/MVS system; I don't think (unfortunately) that EBCDIC will die any time
> soon...

That's the unfortunate difference between "needs" and "will".  8-(.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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