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From: Laurent Siebenmann <sieben@cristal.math.u-psud.fr>
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To: CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru, lcs@cristal.math.u-psud.fr
Subject: Re: input encoding question



Petr Ovchenkov <ptr@ParaGraph.Ru> writes:

 > Well, Linux soft mainly use koi8, and no possibility to
 > compel any Netscape Navigator to work more-or-less adequate
 > with anything except koi8.

 > Sun Microsystems: Solaris 2.x, 7, 8 (SPARC and x86).
 > Preference of SMS is ISO 8859-5 for russian locale.

     Great! We are gradually piecing together a panorama.  Can
anyone tell whether Hewlitt Packard uses ISO 8859-5?

     The acessibility of ASCII on Russian keyboards
in English (programming) mode still worrys me. For example,
I have a USA Mac keyboard in front of me. Here are the
ASCII diacritics available without any modifier
key:

 `-=[]\;',./*+<space><return>

And here are those available with Shift:

 ~!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:"<>?

Cheers

Laurent S


PS. Alexey Mahotkin <alexm@hsys.msk.ru> has kindly pointed to
http://www.moxienet.com/lynx/ for "https-capable" lynx for unix.

PPS.  Apologies for the double posting from me; that message took over 24
hours to get back to me. And I have not yet seen the message of
Vladimir that Petr is quoting!  Are the sunspots bothering
internet?

PPPS.  Thanks also to "Maksym Polyakov"
<mpoliak@pcomp.nauu.kiev.ua> and "Anatoliy A. Malyarenko"
<maa@kilots.kiev.ua> for complementary information.