Re: Doublewidth Cyrillic for unhappy Japanese people

[Bruno Haible]

Thomas Chan writes:

> But I think the last new usages of CP437 really were in the
> mid/late 1990's, at least for US DOS/Windows users.  I think on
> i386 Linux, it might have lasted a bit longer--the linux console I
> used defaulted to CP437.

The Linux distributions I used in/around 1993 already had an
ISO-8859-1 console. But FreeBSD's console is today still by default
CP437.

Bruno
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