Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dmitry Yaitskov" <> | Date | Sat, 18 Apr 1998 10:12:18 -0400 | Subject | Re: unicode (char as abstract data type) |
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On Saturday, Apr 18, Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us) spake thusly: > On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > > To convert what? We have multiple encodings because we have multiple > > > languages, and conversion through Unicode is useful only within the > > > language because otherwise there will be nothing to map into. koi8-r and > > > iso8859-1 charsets have no common characters except the 7-bit ASCII range. > > > > You have multiple Russian encodings. > > I certainly don't. If anything for any reason can arrive at my host in > Russian, in encoding other than koi-8, it gets converted once (and yes, > UTF-8 is used as intermediate format). The same happens with all properly > installed Unix boxes with cyrillic support.
Could you please explain how's it done? (it's a genuine question, not an argument)... (you probably could answer me via email as this has nothing to do with kernel). Thanx.
<snip> > > People share both disk and network filesystems with other OSs. > > ...and in that case they have to keep the same charset on all systems > that are supposed to read files -- for simple reason of being capable of > understanding the data in their files.
Well, that's not exactly true - an obvious example are a lot of web pages either having multiple pages for different encodings, or on-the-fly translators...
-- Cheers, -Dima.
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