Re: code pages I think
Hello Kat,
> Ok.....
>
> If i understand right, Igor and Geraldo are saying this:
> If i recieve something in a cyrilic font, Russian, Greek,
> Hebrew, or whatever,, as long as i know
> that a byte of (for invented instance) 203 = a certain
> character in the sender's language, then as long as i keep
> that byte associated with that knowledge,
> even if i do not have that codepage, i can use that information
> to know what that letter, and word, and paragraph, mean,
> despite what they display as.
Yes, Kat!
> As a second for instance, more real than the first,
> the Russian text i copy/pasted to Igor came from IE5 where
> it looked cyrilic, and i pasted it to Pegasus,
> which gives me apparently zero control of the font
> language families, and in Pegasus it was that collection
> of lantinik vowels with superscripts. Igor, i hope,
> read it as "thanks" in his native language's codepage.
Yes, Kat, but in Russian that is GREATTHANKS 
> Now, if i knew the capital 'A' with a certain superscript
> was the same as the (for instance) 4th character of the
> Russian alphabet, then it would be possible for me,
> or a program, to read the Russian that's displayed
> with the wrong code,, because to the program, it's just a byte,
> an index into the font table.
Yes, Kat!
And SO ON !
Full steam ahead ! (by Mark Brown)
Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru
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