From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 6 1: 2:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (dsl-206.169.4.82.wenet.com [206.169.4.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C21E37C020 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 01:02:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA16477; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 01:04:12 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 01:04:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits To: Nikolai Saoukh Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20000406091824.A1625@Draculina.otdel-1.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Nikolai Saoukh wrote: > > koi8-r, one of the oldest cyrillic charsets, primarily designed to keep > > "intuitive" mapping to ASCII, to remain usable after passing through > > characters-mangling old software and to be readable on 7-bit dumb > > terminals -- and the last mentioned property is still saving a lot of > > trouble for Russians that use mail-to-pager systems. History is more > > complex than some people think. > > Wrong, you are comparing apples and oranges again -- > cyrillic (8859-5) encoding with russian (koi8-r) one. > Never say never -- if you do not know about 8859-5 > usage is does not mean "not used by everyone". I am absolutely certain that my knowledge of the cyrillic encodings usage and history that I have got in fourteen years of dealing with them is complete. -- Alex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Excellent.. now give users the option to cut your hair you hippie! -- Anonymous Coward To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message