[Lcdproc] [PATCH] hd44780-charmap.h Russian charmaps

Yura Scheglyuk matpoc at mail.ru
Wed Jan 20 10:11:48 UTC 2010


          Hi!

Yura Scheglyuk wrote:

> ISO8859-1 encodes what it refers to as "Latin alphabet no. 1,". But Russian is based on a Cyrillic alphabet and there are 3 commonly used charsets for it: KOI8-R, CP-1251 (Windows-1251), ISO 8859-5.
> 
> So you can commit only one Russian charmap, for example CP-1251 (Windows-1251) that is the mostly used.

I think we need as minimum two charset: KOI8-R for Unix, and CP-1251 (Windows-1251) that is the mostly used in Windows.

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Best regards, Yura Scheglyuk.



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