* alternativnyj encoding
@ 2005-12-12 8:43 Werner LEMBERG
2005-12-12 13:23 ` Bruno Haible
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From: Werner LEMBERG @ 2005-12-12 8:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: bruno
Maybe the wrong list, but: Am I right that the Alternativnyj encoding
can handled neither by GNU iconv nor by libiconv? As it is
implemented currently in Emacs, it follows
http://www.cyrillic.com/ref/cyrillic/koi-8alt.html
which looks quite fine. According to this page it was (is?) quite
popular in Russia, so I can't believe it's missing... Is there an
alternative name (note the pun) for it?
Werner
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* Re: alternativnyj encoding
2005-12-12 8:43 alternativnyj encoding Werner LEMBERG
@ 2005-12-12 13:23 ` Bruno Haible
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From: Bruno Haible @ 2005-12-12 13:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
Werner LEMBERG asked:
> Maybe the wrong list, but: Am I right that the Alternativnyj encoding
> can handled neither by GNU iconv nor by libiconv?
This is correct. Furthermore, this encoding is not one of the widespread
encodings listed under "Cyrillic" or "RFC 1345" in
http://www.haible.de/bruno/charsets/conversion-tables/index.html
> Is there an alternative name (note the pun) for it?
No, there isn't. I checked the tables. Probably most texts in this encoding
never used the accents and therefore specifying CP866 instead of
Alternativnyj worked fine for everyone.
> According to this page it was (is?) quite
> popular in Russia, so I can't believe it's missing...
The most-used encodings in Russia already for several years are
KOI8-R and UTF-8. KOI8-R has overshadowed ISO-8859-5 and CP866, so my
guess is that also the Alternativnyj users have migrated to KOI8-R.
Bruno
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