"Garrett D'Amore" <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> This problems existed before -- e.g. what if someone was using a different 
> >> 8859 standard (e.g. in Russia.)  The fact that their program, or yours, 
> >> assumed that 8859-1 was in use, was a bad assumption.
> > 
> > So you like to tell us that you did not understand that the CD standardized 
> > the 
> > 8859-1 coding?
>
> No.  You misunderstand.  The bad assumption is not that 8859-1 would be 
> encoded on the disk, but that the operator was using an 8859-1 locale as his 
> current locale.   I should be able to use these programs to create for a CD 
> in 8859-1, even if I'm running in e.g. KOI8-R.  This problem is what libiconv 
> was designed for.

Thank you for proving that you missunderstand things.

CD-Text is standardized in either 8859-1 or in a proprietary japanese coding 
only. Cdrecord expects CD-Text files in the standard coding and it is the duty 
of other software to provide the CD-text in the right coding regardless in what 
locale they are running.

In other words: you cannot have russion characters in CD-Text.

This is why I agree with the statement that UNICODE introduced problems that 
did not exists before.

Jörg

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