Re: nl_langinfo(CODESET) again

["Alexander Voropay" <a.voropay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


> but some people might want to insert iso-2022-jp or koi8-r in front of
>utf-8 if they happen to mostly communicate locally with people using
>old software.


 Yes. The UTF-8 doubles the size of letters in Russian (U+0400..) so
I personally prefer old-good 8-bit "KOI8-R" charset (RFC-1489) for
e-mail and USENET.

P.S. Like this letter ;-)

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