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Date:      Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:38:13 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        B.Anastasatos@Freemail.gr
Cc:        freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ACS (Alternate Character Set) support in ISO-8859-7 greek codepage
Message-ID:  <20011122153813.GA62978@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <3BFCCE33.A73F605E@MyRealBox.com>
References:  <20010727132229.B8030-300000@idemnia.ath.cx> <3BFCCE33.A73F605E@MyRealBox.com>

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On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:06:43 +0200, ??????????? ????????? wrote:
> ISO-8859-7 supports only 4 out of the 32 ACS characters. On
> the other hand, there are about 35 "unused" positions in ISO-7,
> are more than enough if somebody wanted to add ACS glyphs to
> ISO-8859-7 console fonts.  I noticed that this is exactly what
> happens in the FreeBSD implementation of ISO-8859-2.

No, fonts must conforms standards exactly. 8859-2 font must be fixed 
instead. Otherwise it gives user wrong impression that ACS characters 
present in standard, so he start to use them and become incompatible with 
the rest of the world.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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