Re: lynx-dev Ukrainian charsets...

[Philip Webb]

990218 Leonid Pauzner enlightened us: 
> 17-Feb-99 14:21 Philip Webb wrote:
>> so how exactly do the Russian & Ukrainian alphabets differ?
> make a diff -u koi8r-uni.tbl koi8u-uni.tbl

where do i find these? they don't seem to be in the 2-8-2 package.

> Actually these two languages based on Medieval Slavic language
> (drevneslavyankii, which is a prime language for Russian Orthodox Church),
> Ukrainian seems to be more consistent with drevneslavyansky.
> Off topic.

yes, but close: Lynx tries to accommodate the World's languages,
so lynx-devers need to have some basic information available,
quite apart from the subject's inherent interest.
your account makes sense: there's no exact parallel to Ancient Slavic,
but the Oxford English Dictionary is full of references
to Old High German, Old Norse, etc, from which sister languages
like German & Dutch (close) & Icelandic (more distant) also descended;
then there's Latin, Italian & French in another family.
 
>> and what exactly does Lynx need to be able to serve Ukrainian properly?
> it already does.
 
good: i'm assuming from their silence that Ukrainians agree ...

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