Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 03:17:35 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/syscons/fonts cp866u-8x14.fnt cp866u-8x16 .fnt cp866u-8x8.fnt koi8-u-8x14.fnt koi8-u-8x16.fnt koi8-u-8x8.fnt INDEX.fonts Makefile src/share/syscons/keymaps ua.koi8-u.sh ift.al t.kbd INDEX.keymaps Makefile ... Message-ID: <20010420031734.A74838@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <200104192256.f3JMueC41583@misha.privatelabs.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 06:56:39PM -0400 References: <20010420022925.A74072@nagual.pp.ru> <200104192256.f3JMueC41583@misha.privatelabs.com>
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 18:56:39 -0400, mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote: > Oh... I think, you understood, what I meant, but I'll try again. Replace > "ASCII" above by "the charset commonly used by pseudo-graphics using > programs, whose authors are unaware of any other languages or character > sets but English and latin". If you mean cp866, _all_ pseudographics from there preserved in koi8-r > seems to suggest, that two pseudo-graphical symbols (not sure which > ones) were sacrificed to make room for e: and E: (positions 163 and > 179). No, both YO and yo exists in cp866 too. > Well, in the bad old days of Soviet Union there was no KOI8-R or KOI8-U. > There was KOI8: "Kod Obmena Informaciej, 8-bitovyj". Having at least > something, that is called KOI8 is good, IMO. For completeness sake, I So, we can add yet another charset according to old koi8 standard specs and call it correctly koi8. > think, that "something" should be, what is now called koi8-u. No way. > Well, the programs themselves will be portable, since all of the > assumptions and modifications will be inside libtermcap -- the app will > continue to (portably) call vline, hline, etc, but the library will try > to harder to figure out the correct characters... The portability > argument does not apply, I think. Try to sell this idea to ncurses maintainer first. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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