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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 1996 20:14:04 -0700 (MST)
From:      Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
To:        denis@satty.npi.msu.su (Denis V Kalinin)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers), freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions)
Subject:   Re: syscons fonts
Message-ID:  <199606230314.UAA06578@seagull.rtd.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960622202209.1973B-100000@satty.npi.msu.su> from "Denis V Kalinin" at Jun 22, 96 08:32:27 pm

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Greetings!

> 	I do not recommend you to dig this.
> 	As far as I understand historicaly
> 	it appeared to be more than 10 different
> 	syscons for russian language.
> 
> 	KOI-7, KOI-8, CP1251, CP866, ISO-8859-5, EBSDEC ( or something 
> 	similar) and each of them has it's own modifications (shifted etc.).
> 	There's no real way to choose the one from them as
> 	russian (don't ask why). 
> 	ISO-8859-* is a international standard for syscons ( it exists
> 	but noone actually uses it except XOpen ).

> >     Can someone explain/name the iso-*, cp866-* and koi8-* fonts?

I guess the question I was asking is for a NAME for these fonts.  For
example, cp850 would be "Multilingual/Latin I", cp865 would be "Nordic", etc.
koi8 would be "Russian"?  "Cyrillic"??  And, is "iso-" ISO8859-1, -2, -3,
etc.??

> >     And the purpose of the 8x14 fonts?

These are for 43 line EGA, I've been told.

> >     And the differences between the "", "b" and "c" versions of
> > the 866 and koi8 fonts?

"Stylistic" differences...?



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