pnr@ngs.fi (Pekka Nikander) (04/13/90)
From: pnr@ngs.fi (Pekka Nikander) Just for your information: The European Unix systems User Group (EUUG) is in business of making a sendmail version that will support various 646 character sets, 8859 sets, etc. The current implementation is now in alpha test. Furthermore, the whole design may still change. We are expecting to release the diffs to beta test some time this year. Please do not ask when, since this is being done by a couple of EUnet people at their spare time. If you would like to have more information, or indicate your willingness to operate as a alpha or beta test site, please do not hesitate to contact Keld Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk> of the Danish Unix systems User group, or me. -- Pekka Nikander Internet: pnr@ngs.fi -or- Finnish Unix User Group (FUUG) Pekka.Nikander@ngs.fi Helsinki University of Technology The above expressed opinions are mine, unless expressed otherwise. Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 62
std-unix@longway.TIC.COM (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) (05/02/90)
From: Doug Gwyn <uunet!smoke.brl.mil!gwyn> In article <648@longway.TIC.COM> cns@mtunm.uucp writes: >is it going to include greek? or better: if i type something in greek >on my unix terminal in athens, is it going to appear in greek on my >terminal in usa? It should, if you're using the Greek locale on both systems and if your terminal in the USA supports display of ISO character sets. Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 92
keld@diku.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) (05/03/90)
From: keld@diku.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) >From: cns@mtunm.uucp >is it going to include greek? or better: if i type something in greek >on my unix terminal in athens, is it going to appear in greek on my >terminal in usa? >thx >constantine >at&t bell labs usa .... where our ovens run on UNIX/tm Yes, it supports greek already, that is ISO 8859-7 a.k.a. ELOT 928 - 8 bit greek. So if you use terminals both places that supports this you have no problem. If you run on an IBM PC there is support for displaying the greek chars in this charset. If you use plain ASCII you can have it displayed in a identifiable and somewhat mnemonic form, like a*b* for alfa beta. If you reply on this, you can generate answers which will be presented correctly on the receiver's terminal. There are similar provisions implemented for cyrillic, arabic and hebrew. Keld Simonsen Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 95