Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 18:09:27 +1000 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <199510170809.SAA07948@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199510162245.XAA27289@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 16, 95 11:45:15 pm
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>> The problem with KOI-8 is that KOI-8 is a defacto standard, and is not >> accepted by international standards bodies. Mostly because the most >> popular BBS software in the area picked it up instead of 8859-9. > >The X Consortium finally agreed to accept koi8-r as a valid character >set/encoding. > >:-) What the X Consortium did was to accept The XFree86 Project's request to register the charset/encoding KOI8-R. I don't think it implies any more than that. There are a lot of unusual or vendor-specific chareset/encodings registered with them -- take a look in the xc/registry file. If they ship Cyrillic fonts with their next release, they've indicated (to me at least) that their preference is to use the ISO8859-5 encoding. What XFree86 would like to do in the next release, if possible, is allow the Cyrillic fonts to be built with either KOI8-R or ISO8859-5 encodings. David
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