On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 17:23 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> On 10/27, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> > > header RUSSIAN_SUBJECT Subject =~
> > > /(АБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ){2}/i
> >
> > How would that be different from "write in Greek occasionally"?
>
> I poorly guessed what exactly that looked like. Although, comparing the
> Russian and Greek alphabets on Wikipedia now, they have entirely separate
> ranges of characters. Russian is U+04xx and Greek is U+03xx.
> 'A' (English), 'А' (Russian), and 'Α' (Greek) are all different characters.
> Windows-1253 is the Greek character set.
>
> So I'm curious how koi8-r or Windows-1251 matched Greek.
They don't. However, I don't see any difference between occasionally
writing short parts in Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, or any other script not
based on the Latin alphabet.
Using transcript as well as the original becomes increasingly common
these days.
--
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0.@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
