>>>>> "Victor" == Victor Lavrenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JM> I thought the russian letter were in general in the upper 128
JM> characters...
Victor> All russian letters are in upper 128 characters, even letters
Victor> that looks like latin (e.g. "A"). But they are differently
Victor> ordered there. The order (and even position) depends on
Victor> operating system.
I see. So the 'A' you were refering to was not the ASCII 'A'.
JM> Yes, but this market has the (maybe false) reputation of not being
JM> a market where you can make money, I think.
Victor> False, of course. The salaries are 5-10 times lower that the
Victor> western ones, but prices are the same. So you can sell your
Victor> product and have less expences on retail and make more money.
Victor> So the flame begins.
My intention was certainly not to flame russian computer users,
especially since I often have one or two of them near my office that
could come and flame me 'live' :)
Victor> And I think so. We should provide ONE encoding, but supply it
Victor> with the public domain converter that will be executed by
Victor> 'make install' if requested by user or automatically
Victor> determined if operating system is not UNIX.
JM> This would be for OS/2. What is the encoding used there?
Victor> CP866.
Hmm, maybe our local OS/2 (and i18n) expert could tell us what to do
for OS/2.
JMarc
