OpenEuphoria

Re: code pages I think

• Posted by Igor Kachan <kinz at peterlink.ru> May 19, 2001
• 524 views

Hi Gerardo and dear Eu users,

Gerardo, to exclude Topica, please send your messages (see below)
to me directly in the same old modes, if you can do this.

Then. Euphoria is good (just one side) because Robert 
represents any text just as a sequence of *integers*
with a value from 0 to 255.
So, inside Eu, there are *NO* any problems with any
languages, code pages, char sets, bytes and so on 
CoOoOoL programmer's  mumbo/jumbo.
Integers from 0 to 255. Period, as Rob writes.
Is it good? It is VERY GOOD!

Kat sees Cyrillik text. If she sees Cyrillik and can copy/paste
this Cyrillik into *mailer's editor window* -- be sure I'll see
pure Cyrillic, if her mailer doesn't *recode* bytes and send
message with the soft code page -- i.e. without any "code_page="
or "charset=" mailer's commands.

Kat sees superskripts after pasting the Cyrillic 
into the *mailer's editor window* !!!!?!?    -->  )-:
OK!  
Her editor just uses Western *font* to show, to visually
represent bytes, and from 128 to 255 too. But there are 
*no any* recodings with the *pasted* bytes.

Turn on Cyrillik font and see Cyrillik if you want, and if
you have Cyrillik font.

Next. ASCII<->ANSI? DOS<->Windows<->Linux<->Mac<->ISO...?
Russian<->English<-.....->Mumbo Jumbo...?

Just a font and Eu's representation of the text, nothing more.
Any font 16x8(VGA) - 4K, to support 250 native languages - 1M
of a disk space, so, 1(one) flopopopopy (1.44M diskette).

And this is just the old, simple, kind, nice,..,
beautiful, but well forgotten DOS technology plus *free*
*newest* RDS's Eu-DOS32-Linux-v2.2 & Mr.Ryan's eu_engin.

If you want recoding, you can make recoding 
*separately* under the hardest control. 
For example, I must recode koi into dos,win, mac and
so on. If I have *koi text* and want to recode it into
*win text*, but recode it as *dos text* into *win text*,
I get mumbo/jumbo immediately.

Insteard of dangerous recodings, I'll just load *any* 
unknown *plain* text into polyglot.ex and try to read
it with dos,win,lin,mac,iso,... cyr, jap, ger ... font.
(in the next versions .

Because any new recoding is just one step more 
to the new tower of Babel, I think.

Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru
PS for Gerardo.
> --35--From: Gerardo
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 00:25:21 -0300
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U)
> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> ****
> Igor,This message is coded CP866 (Netscape Messenger).
> Gerardo
> [charset=us-ascii is not CP866, so, Gerardo
> force Mozilla, but Mozilla sends different code page]
> 
> 
> --36--From: Gerardo
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 00:27:49 -0300
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U)
> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> ****
> Igor,This message is coded Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5),
> via Netscape.
> Gerardo
> [charset=koi8-r is not ISO-8859-5, so, Gerardo
> forces Mozilla, but Mozilla sends different code page]

> --39--From: Gerardo
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 00:28:35 -0300
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U)
> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> ****
> Igor, This message is coded Cyrillic (Windows-1251),
> via Netscape.
> Gerardo
> [charset=koi8-r is not ISO-8859-5, so, Gerardo
> forces Mozilla, but Mozilla sends different code page]
   above my misprint
 [charset=koi8-r is not Windows-1251, so, Gerardo
 forces Mozilla, but Mozilla sends different code page]
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