>>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:01:02 +0300
>>> Egor Duda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| HOKURIKU School of Information Science
o_/ 1990 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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