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Re: Doublewidth Cyrillic for unhappy Japanese people

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Subject: Re: Doublewidth Cyrillic for unhappy Japanese people
From: Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 20:24:22 +0200 (CEST)
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Thomas Chan writes:

> But I think the last new usages of CP437 really were in the
> mid/late 1990's, at least for US DOS/Windows users.  I think on
> i386 Linux, it might have lasted a bit longer--the linux console I
> used defaulted to CP437.

The Linux distributions I used in/around 1993 already had an
ISO-8859-1 console. But FreeBSD's console is today still by default
CP437.

Bruno
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References:
- Re: Doublewidth Cyrillic for unhappy Japanese people
  - From: Hironori Sakamoto
- Re: Doublewidth Cyrillic for unhappy Japanese people
  - From: Thomas Chan

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