Re: man-db locale support
<tihonov@ffke-campus.mipt.ru> writes:
> Tagging character set is not necessary to convert between koi8-r
> and iso-8859-5 ?
>
> it is necessary, of course. what I wanted to say is that koi8-r to
> iso-8859-5 transcoding is not always possible.
s/necessary/enough/ (So poor english. :< )
It is not always possible to convert from euc-kr to utf-8, either.
But in practice, it's always possible. It's because the EUC-KR only
code values are hardly used, and we can avoid to use them.
How about the Cyrillic case? Isn't the transcoding possible for any
reasonable Cyrillic character? If not, then I wonder why iso-8859-5
is used for Cyrillic; the charset couldn't cover the reasonable
Cyrillic characters.
--
Changwoo RYU
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