MK> It turns out that glibc supports CP1125. I never heard of it before your posts here but it doesn't surprise me any. The conversion MK> CP1125 <-> UTF-8 appears to be working 100% so far. However I don't see any mention of it at IANA; MK> http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
MK> For the record I am keeping your MSGs as CP1125 and only do the conversions when I quote. I *NEVER* mess with the originals and MK> neither does any code here that I am currently using.
PG>> I'll be glad if the FTS about DDN could be improved or corrected.
MK> Understood. What do you need to make it happen? MK> I am unsure what the real problem is
Three problems: 1. Disable to add additional information to DDN domain (such as pointlist or fresh network segment). 2. Requirement to skip and ignore addresses like f*.n*.z2.* and any other method built from FTN address from INA when building DDN. 3. Claim that such addresses should not appear in the nodelist even if the domain is not DDN (for example, f*.n*.z*.node.binkp.net or f*n*.z2.dyn.binkp.net).
I proposed changes to the FTS in a message before.
MK> and throwing Russians under the bus isn't going to help ... even if they deserve it. ;-)
This is not related to the technical problems. I mentoined this only for explain source of the technical problems (as I think) caused by this FTS.
PG>> And the FTS about charsets too.
MK> Unfortunetly that one might be a tad harder to pull off especially if it isn't listed at IANA. MK> As I said previously, it is an obscure encoding, or at least it is in this part of the world and without IANA support ... ????
Some codepages listed in the FTS-5003 is not listed at IANA. For example, cp848 which is not known by glibc or IANA, and I first heard about it from this FTS.
IANA documents related to Internet. Traditionally on unix systems for russian language before utf-8 as 8-bit encoding used koi8-r, and on dos and os/2 - cp866. Internet was based on unix, fidonet - on dos (and later os/2). Therefore as primary encoding for russian on Internet was koi8-r, and for fidonet - cp866. Ukrainian modification of koi8-r is koi8-u (rfc2319), and modification of cp866 is cp1125 (registered as ibm codepage). IANA documented koi8-u in internet standard, but we in fido should document cp1125 as used in fidonet.
