Ruby & Cyrillic (Russian encodings)

[Armin Roehrl]

Hi,

I would be thankful if s.b. could
give me a link dealing with Cyrillic encoding in Russian.

I want todo trivial things like checking whether a letter
is upper-or lower-case ,etc.

Thx,
-A.

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Armin Roehrl, [url]http://www.approximity.com[/url]

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:20:57PM +0900, Armin Roehrl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would be thankful if s.b. could
> give me a link dealing with Cyrillic encoding in Russian.

Which encoding? :) There are around 27 cyrillic encodings.
Most of commonly used are supported by iconv() -- this reduces number of
them to 4-6.

> I want todo trivial things like checking whether a letter
> is upper-or lower-case ,etc.

Look into glibc's Cyrillic locales definitions, together with selected
encodings.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy
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Is this really happening?

[Armin Roehrl]

> Look into glibc's Cyrillic locales definitions, together with selected
> encodings.

Thank you very much. I see I have to invest a bit of time
here to learn the basics first. :-).
Have a good weekend,
-A.

[Josef 'Jupp' Schugt]

Saluton!

* Armin Roehrl; 2003-07-11, 20:36 UTC:

> Hi,
>
> I would be thankful if s.b. could give me a link dealing with
> Cyrillic encoding in Russian.

Cyrillic Charset Soup by Roman Czyborra has information about the
encoding of languages using cyrillic letters and why most people do
not use ISO 8859-5:

[url]http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html[/url]

Information about character encoding is also available at my home
page. Try any of these URLs:

[url]http://members.lycos.nl/jupp/charsets/[/url]
[url]http://mitglied.lycos.de/buran/charsets/[/url]
[url]http://members.fortunecity.com/deusxmachina/charsets/[/url]

*Note:* For covering *all* cyrillic (not just the characters used for
Russian) you have to use Unicode. All other encodings lack some
characters.

Gis,

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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