From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16486 invoked by alias); 2 May 2006 08:38:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 16451 invoked by uid 48); 2 May 2006 08:38:05 -0000 Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 08:38:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20060502083805.16450.qmail@sourceware.org> From: "ash at contact dot bg" To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20060501055403.2625.ash@contact.bg> References: <20060501055403.2625.ash@contact.bg> Reply-To: sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug localedata/2625] Added support for MIK encoding X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 List-Id: ------- Additional Comments From ash at contact dot bg 2006-05-02 08:38 ------- I am adding references here for anyone to be on the clear about MIK. MIK is a Bulgarian encoding that was used in the 16-bit Bulgarian produced Pravetz computers. The computers were Intel x86 (8086) compatible. The MIK is based on IBM437 codepage, and some of the box drawing characters were replaced by cyrillic letters. The codepage gained a lot of popularity in Bulgaria throughout the years - legacy DOS systems, etc. Now there are a lot of banking, transport, booking, accounting software packages using it. So today we have to upgrade those systems to something more modern. Libc support of MIK will allow for every application to operate on MIK encoded data. This also includes the appplications based on GNU classpath. References for the the MIK codepage itself: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIK_Code_page 2. http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html 3. http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/pipermail/ls-dict/2006-April/002760.html There are 4 different characters in [1] and [2]. GNU libc support is based on [1]! The reason is that MIK is based on IBM437. [3] is the translators' discussion on these problems. (the resource is in Bulgarian). -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2625 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.