From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: vedm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs in xterm and Cyrillic? Date: 13 Apr 2005 22:03:22 -0400 Message-ID: <86u0maqfmd.fsf@localhost.localdomain> References: <86zmwfv3hj.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <86oecs7kvx.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <86is2v78hs.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <861x9eruxm.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113444178 25492 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2005 02:02:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 02:02:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 14 04:02:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLtgL-0005pq-V7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:02:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLtjY-0001wL-Ho for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:05:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.rogers.com!news.rogers.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:03:17 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.24.147.173 Original-X-Trace: sv3-HP5JMH937Atf6PjMpI+t20AGDTyEKd/UUQa3tI3oavehXGtm7xcPOPZkT4cBYP3wQ1q4BaJoAivAobP!/g7hrIXZ3Q88bVl3Y/Y+lgFBc08XCfBts0DY4l4kZzsGDk0ExjexbAPspVHGL3t0YBd4AiVPqCY4 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rogers.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@rogers.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.31 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130110 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25677 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25677 vedm writes: > Kevin Rodgers 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