On 2002.05.20 at 13:53:33 -0400, Crouch, Harold L. wrote: > Greetings: > > My native tongue is English (United States). I want to be able to work with > both the English and Russian alphabets on my computer, and to be able to > send and receive e-mail in the Russian language. > > The first task is to choose the correct encoding method. I understand that > my choices are KOI-8R, UTF-8 (Unicode), ISO-8859-5 or CP-1251 (Windows). > Would someone please tell me which of these encoding methods is most > popular.
It depends by what you mean under "most popular". Among Unix users and in news/email sytems KOI8-R is most popular. Among computer users at all - Windows (CP1251) is more popular. BTW, it has some advantages - it contains some punctiation signs like double angle quotes which are quite common in russian typography, but are missing from koi8-r. And UTF-8 is definitiely encoding of future. Really you don't need to choose. For instance I'm now running on the same desktop xterms with all three mentioned encodings. I use KOI8-R for mail/news clients, CP1251 for editing HTML files and UTF-8 for editing XML files. System is Debian/Potato. -- Victor Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer Office:7-(095)-748-53-88 Communiware.Net Home: 7-(095)-135-46-61 http://www.communiware.net http://www.ice.ru/~vitus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
