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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 11:02:29 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199510162248.XAA27324@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 16, 95 11:48:31 pm
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> > > What you mean by majority? Russian users amount is comparable
> > > with all european users, why not extend default table to KOI8-R
> > > instead?
> > 
> > Because post ANSI 3.64 terminal control codes reserve 0x80..0x9f and
> > KOI8-R does not respect this international standard?
> 
> Terry, before giving public statements, please look at the character
> set.  It's included in the latest public fix from XConsortium and in
> XFree86 3.1.2, so you shouldn't have a hard time to find something
> about it.

It has characters "which may be omitted" in the range 0x80-0x9f.

Perhaps the font has chosen that option (and it is an option)?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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