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Subject: Re: CP866-rus for X ???
To: abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (Alex Belits)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:39:23 +0600 (ESD)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970417133232.23904B-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> from "Alex Belits" at Apr 17, 97 01:35:01 pm
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> 
> On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Ozz wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > Do you know anythink about the CP866-russian fonts for X-Win?
> 
>   I don't think, such thing is used anywhere. Generally it's considered
> wrong to transfer any Cyrillic text to anything unixlike without
> converting it to koi8.

KOI-8 is a standard fro mail and news exchange. But there exist
several standards of russian encoding itself. Personally I
use KOI-8 for mail and news and CP866 for anything else
(read: work).

I have converted some CP866 fonts from DOS, and some from Cronyx
KOI-8 fonts. The bad news is that Type1 fonts do not allow to
use CP866. It would be not bad to write a builtin encoding
converter for X Server. :-)

-SB