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Skriven 2017-02-24 00:57:39 av Maurice Kinal (1:153/7001)
  Kommentar till text 18984 av Vasily Losev (1:229/616)
Ärende: but to moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
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Hey Vasily!

 VL> It is 866 and only 866. Like 25 years ago.

I thought you said it was KOI8?

 VL> 866 or CP1251 doesn't. E.g. 'Б' in 7-bits will not be 'B'.

Of course not.  'Б' in CP866 is 10000001, 11000001 in CP1251, and 11100010 in
KOI8-R.  Although different they all are 8 bit characters whereas 'B' is the 7
bit ASCII character 01000010.  Exactly where do you see any 'Б' mapping out to
'B'?

 VL> Mostly CP1251 because Windows.

Yes.  Near as I can tell from this angle Russia had the same problem with
Windows users as here in North America as far as getting codepages correct. 
UTF-8 vastly simplifies it as well as having the bonus of displaying multiple
languages without having to change encodings.  It is obviously superior to
EVERYTHING including other Unicodes such as UTF-16 simply because it is 100%
compatible with ASCII.

 VL> Tell me a better way.

You show me how the heck 'Б' becomes 'B' first.  You have my undivided
attention.

I originally thought you meant that the 7 bit encodings in KOI8 matched ASCII
which I believe they do.  Same with CP866 and CP1251 though.  Same same with
UTF-8 while we're at it.  'B' is 01000010 in all of them and is never, ever
'Б' in any of them.  Your mileage may vary.

Life is good,
Maurice

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    Who is a false friend? A friend at table, not in time of need.
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