Text 18986, 37 rader
Skriven 2017-02-24 06:30:19 av Maurice Kinal (1:153/7001)
  Kommentar till text 18984 av Vasily Losev (1:229/616)
Ärende: but to moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
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Hey Vasily!

 VL> Huh? How would people talk in R50 without cyrrilic?

It occurs to me that we're talking about two different things.  I am talking
about fonts that get displayed on a monitor while I believe you might be
talking about keymaps such as /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz which is
the keymap I happen to be using.  I doubt it would be of much use to people in
R50.  However something like /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ru.map.gz might be
although I get the feeling it might be only useful to Russians that have an
English QWERTY keyboard.  I am not sure but maybe it will remap the 'B' key
when pressed with Shift to the Cyrillic character 'Б' in a UTF-8 enviroment. 
Also I see Russian keymaps that use KOI8-R instead of UTF-8 codes so perhaps
that is what you're talking about.  I wasn't so I hope that clears up the
misunderstanding between us.

It looks to me that KOI8-R, CP866 and UTF-8 are all choices available to
Russian users.  I suspect that if I were a Russian sysop I'd be mapping out the
keyboard to UTF-8 characters since that is the present and future of text
messaging.  The fact that Russian Fidonet sysops are hanging onto CP866 comes
as no surprise to me given that North American sysops have never gotten beyond
CP437.  It is indeed a very sad situation worldwide.

 VL> Tell me a better way.

I just did.  It isn't easy but nothing worthwhile ever is easy.  Is it any
different in Russia?  I seriously doubt that it is.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Eorþan indryhto ealdað ond searað, swa nu monna gehwylc.
    The glory of earth ages and grows sere, as now every man does.
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