On 23 Mar 01 at 0:04, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote:
Hello Clarence and Thomas,
>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 03:29:00 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: New email format?
>
>>- you have to get used to the transcription: eg. Sigma is what you would
>>transcribe as 'ya' into English. x is the Russian 'ch', that is
>>generally transcribed as 'h'
Sorry, Sigma in my mail was supposed to be 'a' with '..' on it. So Latin
II has a few letters that directly correspond to Russian letters as
most of the East European languages are very close to Russian.
>>Result: If I want to work further with these texts, I will have to
>>convert them properly. That means to a codepage, that includes the
>>same language, because all letters must have an equivalent. East
>In these examples, some Cyrillic letters are translated to already
>existing letters of the Roman alphabet, or to characters, such as
>the question mark, that already have a use. I was thinking of a
>code page that shows Cyrillic letters as the actual Cyrillic
>letters, which I don't know how to show here, or if I did, the
>people on this list wouldn't see them correctly.
The Russian DOS codepage is (was) cp866 for Russian (there are
others for Serbian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian). It should be easy to find
it in MS-DOS (and less practicable in DR-DOS). You have to install
it in config.sys (DEVICE DISPLAY will cost you upper memory) and
with MODE command in autoexec.bat. KEYB.COM allows you to set up a
keyboard that can easy switch between English and Russian. You will
be happy with this codepage setting if you communicate only in
English and Russian. But East and West European diacritics will then
display as certain Cyrillic letters.
>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:07:49 -0500
>From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: New email format?
>
>Hello Thomas;
>That's another use for .ZBMs. Or .GIFs for more general use. <G>
No. Switching codepages is necessary. Not because I want to look at a
text like at a painting. But because I want to work with the
text: add, shorten, quote, send it to my printer, add a different
format, export to database...
>But it's still nice to have that ability to send screenshots to our
>friends.
Yes.
Regards
Christof Lange
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