William McBrine wrote to James Bradley, "Re: MM in Russian?" on
06-25-05 14:42

 -=> James Bradley wrote to All <=-

 JB> I'm trying to adapt to the Russian Cyrillic font with MultiMail under
 JB> Linux RH-9. (ru_??.UTF-8 something or another was the codepage I
 JB> tried.)

 WM> I'm working on UTF-8 support for MultiMail. It won't be in the next
 WM> ... [All good stuff saved for perusal]

 WM> ----------------------------------

 WM> For Russian, try substituting "koi8-8x16" for
"default8x16", above.* I
 WM> haven't any Russian packets, so I can't test this. (Please send me
 WM> some!) In addition to the above, you have to make sure the reader is in
 WM> a "passthrough" mode; to make a long story short, if it
doesn't look
 WM> right, press 'c' to toggle the character set translation. If it still
 WM> doesn't look right, you may have to wait for the UTF-8 version.


I think I can accommodate you on the Russian packet, but I am a mere
 mortal dialling into a board. We have never tried a file attach from
 my account, so I can't say for certain if I'd send his modem on a
 dialling frenzy. I know, chances are it will just FTP you on ZMH,
 but I'd rather not PO the Sysop JIC. 

There are Russian specific echoes, and I doubt they are *not* on the
 backbone. You may look for RUSSIAN_TUTOR (Where I will repost this.)
 or something like Z2_RUSSIA. (I know I have that name wrong, but you
 get the idea?) What I will do, is forward a post to here, just for
 your immediate gratification. If you don't have access, I'll work on
 getting the packet I have already created to you. (I can simply
 upload it and have the sysop f'attach it, or inform him what I am
 doing.) 

For the record, when I installed a different distro, all my "shifting
 display" issues went away. The worst that happens now, is the ASCII
 welcome screen doesn't display while running under the CLI. 

 WM> * Edit: Or use the commands from your followup post. Those look likely.
 WM> :-)

Like most of Linux at this time, this flew *way* over my head.

 WM> (1:106/2000)


... "Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity." -
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PS: Their posts were fudging up the letter list! The right side was
blanking out of it's usual colour, and foillowing the message title as
I scrolled up or down. I'll keep an eye on it if I can repeat it.

--- Maximus 3.01