>>>>> "Victor" == Victor Lavrenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> "JM" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Victor> No, ISO8859-5, CP1251, Mac/Cyrillic and so on are not the
Victor> aliases of Russian encoding. They are the different Russian
Victor> encodings. E.g. ord('A', ISO8859-5) != ord('A', CP1251), where
Victor> ord(X, Y) is the binary code of Russian letter X in encoding
Victor> Y.
JM> Huh? You mean that they are not based on ASCII?
Victor> Of course, not. Russian language consists of non-latin
Victor> letters. Look, for example at:
Victor> http://ferry.rbc.ru/img/rbc_lines1.gif --- it contains a lot
Victor> of letters that don't exist in ASCII.
I thought the russian letter were in general in the upper 128
characters...
JM> Indeed, Digital Unix 4 and solaris 2.5 do not offer any russian
JM> locale.
Victor> Yes. And I don't no why --- Russian software market is wide
Victor> enough to make some localization.
Yes, but this market has the (maybe false) reputation of not being a
market where you can make money, I think.
JM> Yes, but I guess we should be able to provide only ONE encoding
JM> (for example koi8-r).
Victor> And I think so. We should provide ONE encoding, but supply it
Victor> with the public domain converter that will be executed by
Victor> 'make install' if requested by user or automatically
Victor> determined if operating system is not UNIX.
This would be for OS/2. What is the encoding used there?
JMarc
