From: vedm <ns@nospam.com>
Subject: Re: Emacs in xterm and Cyrillic?
Date: 13 Apr 2005 22:03:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86u0maqfmd.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 861x9eruxm.fsf@localhost.localdomain
vedm <ns@nospam.com> writes:
> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > That can't be the case, because Cyrillic characters can't even be
> > represented in ASCII.
...
> Now, the second part of your statement is that "Cyrillic characters
> can't even be represented in ASCII". But the Cyrillic alphabet consists
> of about 30 letters (Bulgarian - 30, Russian - 33), and the 7-bit ASCII
> code has 128 positions, which is clearly more than enough to encode 30
> letters (or 60, for upper and lower case)
Well, what I mean is that one could redefine some of the ASCII codes to
correspond to Cyrillic letters...but in that case it won't be ASCII code
any more, although still 7 bit. So you win :).
--
vedm
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-03 23:34 Emacs in xterm and Cyrillic? vedm
2005-04-04 17:43 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-04-05 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.78.1112634873.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-06 1:29 ` vedm
2005-04-06 8:18 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-04-06 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-10 0:26 ` vedm
[not found] ` <mailman.354.1112774023.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-10 0:58 ` vedm
2005-04-10 12:54 ` Recommendations: emacs files containing multiple languages ken
2005-04-10 13:33 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-04-10 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-10 13:20 ` Emacs in xterm and Cyrillic? Peter Dyballa
2005-04-11 17:48 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.1082.1113240243.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-14 1:47 ` vedm
2005-04-14 2:03 ` vedm [this message]
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