From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Facts for fans: encodings history (was: Re: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 07:19:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioo4ukyq.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sin8use8.fsf@debian.uxu
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>> Yuri Khan writes:
>>
>> You could order a book in an Internet shop, have
>> them completely b0rk up the encoding of the shipping
>> address:
>>
>> http://cdn.imagepush.to/in/625x2090/i/3/30/301/24.jpg
>>
>> Then somebody at the postal system might decode the
>> characters and the package would still be delivered
>> at the intended address.
>
> Ha-ha, unbelievable! How did that happen? First you
> wrote in Russian at the Internet shop's web page -
> then it got like that because of them translating
> Unicode (?) to ISO-8859-1 (which is 8-bit, with the
> ASCII as its lower half) - ? Why didn't the Internet
> shop do it? Did they actually think that was a
> language or some transcription of Russian? How was it
> translated to Russian at the postal office? I can
> only make out the first line: Russia, Moscow.
I read an article on this:
Pre-1990s: the 7-bit period. US-ASCII, with ISO 646 in
Scandinavia and Finland (with 0x5B-D and 0x7B-D
replaced with national chars: those were [ \ ]
and { | } respectively in the US-ASCII).
The 90s: 8-bits. ISO 8859-1 with the ASCII as its lower
half. Russian: KOI8-R, ISO 8859-5, and CP1251.
2000s: the multi-byte era. EUC and ISO 2022-JP for
CJK. Linux moves from 8859 to UTF-8, an
ASCII-compatible implementation of the likely future
standard Unicode/ISO 10646.
--
underground experts united:
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
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2014-06-11 0:04 ` Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes Emanuel Berg
2014-06-11 5:23 ` Nikolai Weibull
[not found] ` <mailman.3375.1402464243.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-11 14:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-11 15:03 ` Nikolai Weibull
[not found] ` <mailman.3418.1402499010.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-11 15:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-11 16:57 ` Teemu Likonen
[not found] ` <mailman.3437.1402505846.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-11 21:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-12 5:43 ` Yuri Khan
2014-06-12 12:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-12 13:36 ` Nikolai Weibull
2014-06-12 14:48 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3496.1402580195.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14 1:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14 5:45 ` Yuri Khan
2014-06-17 1:09 ` Keyboard layout purpose (was: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes) Garreau, Alexandre
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2014-06-14 11:14 ` Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14 14:51 ` Yuri Khan
2014-06-14 15:26 ` Teemu Likonen
2014-06-17 1:42 ` Garreau, Alexandre
[not found] ` <mailman.3651.1402757512.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14 16:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-16 15:35 ` Joost Kremers
2014-06-17 2:21 ` Garreau, Alexandre
[not found] ` <mailman.3799.1402971688.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-17 2:41 ` Rusi
2014-06-17 3:05 ` Rusi
2014-06-17 1:46 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2014-06-15 2:48 ` Sergio Pokrovskij
2014-06-17 1:30 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2014-06-12 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3473.1402551809.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14 1:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14 2:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14 5:19 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2014-06-14 7:37 ` Facts for fans: encodings history (was: Re: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes) Yuri Khan
2014-06-14 8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-14 10:46 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <mailman.3631.1402731427.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14 11:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14 7:11 ` Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <mailman.3630.1402729917.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14 11:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-17 2:12 ` Rusi
2014-06-17 2:33 ` Garreau, Alexandre
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