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Subject:	Re: Cygwin Termcap information involving extended ascii charicters
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From:	Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date:	06 Mar 2001 17:20:31 +0900
In-Reply-To:	Egor Duda's message of Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:01:02 +0300
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>>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:01:02 +0300
>>> Egor Duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru> said:

> As   for   "international  friendliness",  i  personally  think  that
> cyrillic  oem    codepage  866  is far  more  "friendly" then cyrillic
> codepage 1251 used as ansi codepage on consoles in russian windows.

ANSI codepages don't necessarily have "international friendliness".
In many languages, they are compatible with the international
standards of character sets than OEM codepages.
It means they are compatible with the character sets adopted in
i18n frameworks of UNIX environments.

For example...

Dutch, French, German, Italian...:
    CP1251 is upper compatible with ISO8859-1.
Turkish:
    CP1251 is upper compatible with ISO8859-9.
Hebrew:
    CP1255 is upper compatible with ISO8859-8.
Greek:
    CP1253 is almost upper compatible with ISO8859-7.

All OEM codepages except for double byte character sets don't
have such compatibility at all.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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