Return-Path: Received: from video.uic.vsu.ru ([62.76.169.38] verified) by vsu.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.3.1) with ESMTP id 1816379 for CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:33:29 +0400 Sender: vvv@video.uic.vsu.ru To: CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru Subject: Re: input encoding question References: From: Vladimir Volovich Date: 18 Aug 2000 14:33:23 +0400 In-Reply-To: Laurent Siebenmann's message of "Mon, 31 Jul 2000 06:09:28 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "LS" == Laurent Siebenmann writes: LS> In the Microsoft Windows Russian Cyrillic encoding (ISO?) 1251 no, ms 1251 codepage is not an ISO standard LS> one finds 4 quotation marks that originated in France with Mr LS> Guillemet. The common-names and hexadecimal codes are: [...] LS> Question: In the Microsoft DOS Russian Cyrillic "Alternative" LS> encoding as most usually sold, what are the corresponding codes? the standard ms 866 codepage does not contain them; some variants of cp866 do contain them. probably because of this, guillemets are not often used in plain text russian documents; but books in russian do prefer to use guillemets. the fact that cp1251 contains guillemets does not lead to using them in emails and texts, because most russian keyboards do not contain direct keys for guillemets. LS> Beyond "1251", "DOS Alternative" and "Unix-Internet KOI8", is LS> there any Cyrillic input encoding with a big user base? ISO 8859-5 is used in many commercial unix flavors and in cyrillic text exchanges abroad russia; MAC cyrillic encoding is used on Apple Macintosh platform; asian cyrillic encodings like PT154 are perhaps in use too. Best, v.