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Re: alternativnyj encoding
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: alternativnyj encoding |
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Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:23:00 +0100 |
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Werner LEMBERG asked:
> Maybe the wrong list, but: Am I right that the Alternativnyj encoding
> can handled neither by GNU iconv nor by libiconv?
This is correct. Furthermore, this encoding is not one of the widespread
encodings listed under "Cyrillic" or "RFC 1345" in
http://www.haible.de/bruno/charsets/conversion-tables/index.html
> Is there an alternative name (note the pun) for it?
No, there isn't. I checked the tables. Probably most texts in this encoding
never used the accents and therefore specifying CP866 instead of
Alternativnyj worked fine for everyone.
> According to this page it was (is?) quite
> popular in Russia, so I can't believe it's missing...
The most-used encodings in Russia already for several years are
KOI8-R and UTF-8. KOI8-R has overshadowed ISO-8859-5 and CP866, so my
guess is that also the Alternativnyj users have migrated to KOI8-R.
Bruno