>>>>> "JM" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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
Victor> lot of letters that don't exist in ASCII.
JM> I thought the russian letter were in general in the upper 128
JM> characters...
All russian letters are in upper 128 characters, even letters that
looks like latin (e.g. "A"). But they are differently ordered
there. The order (and even position) depends on operating system.
JM> Yes, but this market has the (maybe false) reputation of not
JM> being a market where you can make money, I think.
False, of course. The salaries are 5-10 times lower that the western
ones, but prices are the same. So you can sell your product and have
less expences on retail and make more money.
So the flame begins.
JM> Yes, but I guess we should be able to provide only ONE
JM> encoding (for example koi8-r).
Victor> And I think so. We should provide ONE encoding, but supply
Victor> it with the public domain converter that will be executed
Victor> by 'make install' if requested by user or automatically
Victor> determined if operating system is not UNIX.
JM> This would be for OS/2. What is the encoding used there?
CP866.
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