Subject: Re: commit: i18n megapatch to AW
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 11:21:33 CDT
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sam th" <sam@uchicago.edu>
> To: "Martin Sevior" <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
> Cc: "Thomas Briggs" <tom@sane.com>; <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 11:21 AM
> Subject: Re: commit: i18n megapatch to AW
>
>
> > Just one comment - the ru-RU strings file, which you provided but has not
> > yet been committed, doesn't work. This is because expat doesn't like
> > files to be encoded in KOI8. Basically, expat only likes UTF-8. Is there
> > any way that this could be converted so that we can finish off Russian
> > support?
>
> Is there another (more official) name for KOI8? I have a program than convert
> between these formats:
>
> Adobe-Standard-Encoding, Adobe-Symbol-Encoding,
> Adobe-Zapf-Dingbats-Encoding, Arabic, ASCII, big-endian, Big5,
> BMP, CCSID-1027, CCSID-1047, CCSID-290, CCSID-942,
> ChineseAutoDetect, CNS-11643, CNS-11643-1986, CP10000, CP10001,
> CP10002, CP10003, CP10004, CP10005, CP10006, CP10007, CP10008,
> CP10010, CP10017, CP10029, CP10079, CP10081, CP10082, CP1026,
> CP1250, CP1251, CP1252, CP1253, CP1254, CP1255, CP1256, CP1257,
> CP1258, CP1361, CP20105, CP20261, CP20269, CP20273, CP20277,
> CP20278, CP20280, CP20284, CP20285, CP20290, CP20297, CP20420,
> CP20423, CP20833, CP20838, CP20866, CP20871, CP20880, CP20905,
> CP21025, CP21027, CP28592, CP28593, CP28594, CP28595, CP28596,
> CP28597, CP28598, CP28599, CP437, CP500, CP708, CP720, CP737,
> CP775, CP850, CP852, CP855, CP857, CP860, CP861, CP862, CP863,
> CP864, CP865, CP866, CP869, CP870, CP874, CP875, CP932, CP936,
> CP949, CP950, EBCDIC, EUC-J, EUC-KR, EUC-KR:HP-Printer, GB12345,
> GB2312, Greek, Hebrew, HZ, IBM-83-4040, IBM-83-4242, ISO-2022-JP,
> ISO-2022-KR, ISO-8859-14, ISO-8859-15, ISOLatinCyrillic,
> JapaneseAutoDetect, Java, JEF-78-4040, JEF-78-4040, JEF-83-4040,
> JEF-83-A1A1, JIS_X0201, JIS_X_0208, Johab, KEIS-78-4040,
> KEIS-78-4040, KEIS-83-4040, KEIS-83-A1A1, KoreanAutoDetect,
> Latin1, Latin2, Latin3, Latin4, Latin5, Latin6, little-endian,
> MacCentralEuropean, MacChineseSimplified, MacChineseTraditional,
> MacCroatian, MacCyrillic, MacDevanagari, MacDingbats, MacGreek,
> MacGujarati, MacGurmukhi, MacIcelandic, MacJapanese, MacKorean,
> MacRoman, MacRomanian, MacSymbol, MacThai, MacTurkish,
> MacUkrainian, NextStep, Shift-JIS, Thai, UCS2,
> Unicode11:big-endian, Unicode11:BOM:big-endian,
> Unicode11:BOM:Java, Unicode11:BOM:little-endian,
> Unicode11:BOM:UCS2, Unicode11:BOM:UTF-8-EBCDIC,
> Unicode11:BOM:UTF7, Unicode11:BOM:UTF8, Unicode11:Java,
> Unicode11:little-endian, Unicode11:UCS2, Unicode11:UTF-8-EBCDIC,
> Unicode11:UTF7, Unicode11:UTF8, Unicode20:BOM:Java,
> Unicode20:BOM:UTF-8-EBCDIC, Unicode20:BOM:UTF7,
> Unicode20:BOM:UTF8, Unicode20:little-endian, Unicode20:UCS2,
> UTF-8-EBCDIC, UTF7, UTF8
>
> KOI-8 is not listed ...
Is it GNU recode?
The KOI8-R is official name of that encoding. (Also there are KOI8-RU,
KOI8-U, KOI8-UB - but they differ in no more than 4 letters (ukrainian)).
As for gnu recode - the author was very reluctant to add it.
> --#
> Karl Ove Hufthammer
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
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