Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:04:18 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Max Gotlib <max@cca.usart.ru> Cc: gestura@nyherji.is, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: russian language mixes in sendmail Message-ID: <19981102200418.A4227@ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981028145543.30204B-100000@linux.cca.usart.ru>; from Max Gotlib on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:02:50PM %2B0500 References: <002566AA.0057AC58.00@smtpnotes.nyherji.is> <Pine.LNX.3.95.981028145543.30204B-100000@linux.cca.usart.ru>
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On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:02:50PM +0500, Max Gotlib wrote: > Hi! > > Seems to be the problem of multiply russian > character sets used in e-mail conversations. > There are at least three widely used charsets: > koi8-r (koi8-u for Ukrainian) used in unix environments, > win1251 M$ proposed charset and cp866 (also known > as "alternative") IBM proposed charset. Beside these, > there is iso-8859-5 (used in some unixies and Mac) > and several 7-bit alternatives (koi7, gost, ...). > There is de-facto standard for the "transportation" > encoding - koi8-r (but not de-yuro). > So, the problem (IMHO) is in user's mailreaders, > that could not "understand" each other. The possible > solution is to use "charcter-set-on-the-fly-converters", > but i'm not sure that it is sutable in "multilingual" > mail relaing... > > Best regards, > Max. > Use the latest version of Mutt - the greatest MUA. It can handle all known character sets, and you can define your own without recompiling the sources. Best regards, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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