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Re: lynx-dev Ukrainian charsets...
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Leonid Pauzner |
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Re: lynx-dev Ukrainian charsets... |
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Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:05:08 +0300 (MSK) |
19-Feb-99 11:35 Philip Webb wrote:
> 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.
hint: src/chrtrans/
>> 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,
lynx just trying to accomodate characters
while humans are reading texts (with a limited ability to understand :-)
> 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.
I beleave you will find a very few reference to Slavic languages
in the English dictionary, they probably have Greek in between.
Re: lynx-dev Ukrainian charsets..., Klaus Weide, 1999/02/17
Re: lynx-dev Ukrainian charsets..., Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/02/17