RE: Proposal about adding cp1251 (Russian Windoz) encoding in Emacs

[Krjukov Victor]

I forgot to attach changed files - here they are.

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Sincerely Yours, Victor V. Kryukov, UFG
phone: +7501 967 3727, ext. 4387
email: vkryukov@ufg.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krjukov Victor 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:04 PM
> To: 'bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org'
> Subject: Proposal about adding cp1251 (Russian Windoz) 
> encoding in Emacs
> 
> 
> Greetings, Emacs developers.
> 
> MULE support in Emacs contains several encodings for Russian 
> language: 
> ISO 8859-5, used as main encoding (it's called a 'standard' 
> encoding but _nobody_ here actually use it);
> koi8-r (de-facto standard in email transmission and standard 
> in *nix systems - almost all *nix systems in Russia use it);
> and Alternativnyj (also known as cp866) - an ancient encoding 
> come from DOS world.
> 
> But Emacs has no support for cp1251 (standard Russian 
> encoding in Windows), though we have and activelly use Emacs 
> for Windows.
> 
> I've made several changes in several *el files from Emacs 
> 21.2 distribution, but it seems to me that you need to 
> recompile Emacs to include additional language in MULE 
> support (and I have no C compiler on my Windows system).
> 
> Could someone check attached files and probably implement 
> them in future Emacs version? This would be a great help to 
> russian windows-emacs users.
> 
> Thank you very much for this great program,
> 
>               Victor V. Kryukov.
> 
> PS. I've also made some changes in lisp/language/cyrillic.el: 
> fix some typo (staff instead of stuff ;) and fix some bugs 
> (e.g. cyrillic-encode-koi8-r-char instead of 
> cyrillic-encode-alternativnyj-char at the bottom of folloving 
> excerpt in lines 203-217 of cyrillic.el looks really strange).
> 
> I have also another question: comparing sections in 
> cyrillic.el for koi8-r and for alternativnyj you may notice 
> that one line       
> (if (r0 == ,(charset-id 'cyrillic-iso8859-5))
> only present for define-ccl-program ccl-encode-koi8 and not 
> in ccl-encode-alternativnyj - is it a bug or a feature?
> ---
> (make-coding-system
>  'cyrillic-alternativnyj 4 ?A
>  "ALTERNATIVNYJ 8-bit encoding for Cyrillic"
>  '(ccl-decode-alternativnyj . ccl-encode-alternativnyj)
>  `((safe-chars . ,(let ((table (make-char-table 'safe-chars))
>                       (i 0))
>                   (while (< i 256)
>                     (aset table (aref 
> cyrillic-alternativnyj-decode-table i)
>                           t)
>                     (setq i (1+ i)))
>                   table))
>    (valid-codes (0 . 175) (224 . 241) 255)
>    (charset-origin-alist (cyrillic-iso8859-5 "ALTERNATIVNYJ"
>                                            
> cyrillic-encode-koi8-r-char))))
> ---
> 
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> Sincerely Yours, Victor V. Kryukov, UFG
> phone: +7501 967 3727, ext. 4387
> email: vkryukov@ufg.com
>

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