X-Comment-To: Oleg Deribas
Hi!
21-���-2002 16:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oleg Deribas) wrote to "Arkady
V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
OD>>> 0xf6 0x0406 #CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
OD>>> 0xf7 0x0456 #CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
AVB>> What the difference of this last letter from latinic `Ii'?
OD> You mean these letters:
OD> 0x49 0x0049 #LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
OD> 0x69 0x0069 #LATIN SMALL LETTER I
OD> ?
Yes.
OD> As you can see it is different letters with different unicode numbers.
European languages also have their own character sets, but in DOS
codepages most _latinic characters_ used from lower ASCII7 part (except
charcters with tildas, umlauts, etc).
OD> Do you know something about sorting, database search?
Of course. :) And this issue of other European languages.
BTW, do you know about so called `collating' and `weight' tables, which
eliminate troubles with unordered character sets?
OD> Try to translate mail from koi8-u to cp866 and back, for example ;)
And what?
OD> Why don't you use latinic 'A' instead of cyrillic 'A' in Russian?
Because this is _not_ latinic letter, even though its sound and shape
is similar. Let me get another example: `H' and `p'. FIDO users was forced
to use latinic `H' and `p' instead similarly shapen Russian `N' and `r', and
this is cause much of troubles _because there two different used code in
differene contexts_.
This is answer to you: if you will not make _duplication_ of some
charcters (and may question was: "are your $f6 and $f7 exported from latinic
alphabet?"), then you will not have troubles with using different code for
_one letter_. Cyrillic `A' and latinic `a' is a _different letters_.
BTW, is Unicode for European languages (French, German) also
_duplicates_ latinic letters or they continued to used from lower 128
positions?
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