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Re: Emacs in xterm and Cyrillic?
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vedm |
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Re: Emacs in xterm and Cyrillic? |
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13 Apr 2005 22:03:22 -0400 |
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vedm <ns@nospam.com> writes:
> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > That can't be the case, because Cyrillic characters can't even be
> > represented in ASCII.
...
> Now, the second part of your statement is that "Cyrillic characters
> can't even be represented in ASCII". But the Cyrillic alphabet consists
> of about 30 letters (Bulgarian - 30, Russian - 33), and the 7-bit ASCII
> code has 128 positions, which is clearly more than enough to encode 30
> letters (or 60, for upper and lower case)
Well, what I mean is that one could redefine some of the ASCII codes to
correspond to Cyrillic letters...but in that case it won't be ASCII code
any more, although still 7 bit. So you win :).
--
vedm
- Re: Emacs in xterm and Cyrillic?, (continued)
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- Re: Emacs in xterm and Cyrillic?, vedm, 2005/04/09
- Recommendations: emacs files containing multiple languages, ken, 2005/04/10
- Re: Recommendations: emacs files containing multiple languages, Peter Dyballa, 2005/04/10
- Re: Recommendations: emacs files containing multiple languages, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/04/10
- Re: Emacs in xterm and Cyrillic?, Peter Dyballa, 2005/04/10
- Re: Emacs in xterm and Cyrillic?, Kevin Rodgers, 2005/04/11
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- Re: Emacs in xterm and Cyrillic?, vedm, 2005/04/13
- Re: Emacs in xterm and Cyrillic?,
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