On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:53:47PM +0400, Alexander Voropay wrote:
> Pablo Saratxaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> >So, it is needed to do some euristics to try to know.
> >Hopefully the choices will be between traditional encoding
> >(eg: koi8-r for 'ru', iso-8859-2 for 'pl' etc)
>
> JFYI: This is true only for Linux and FreeBSD. For another commercial
> *NUX-ies (HP-UX, AIX, SCO, Tru-64 Alpha e.t.c.) the default encoding
> for short form LANG=ru is _standart_ ISO-8859-5 .
So do most programs with Russian manpages use koi8-r and expect them
to be translated to ISO-8859-5, use ISO-8859-5 and expect them to be
translated to koi8-r, or carry both, or what?
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