Re: lynx-dev Ukrainian charsets...

[Leonid Pauzner]

17-Feb-99 14:21 Philip Webb wrote:

> the Cyrillic alphabet goes back to the E Roman Empire, which spoke Greek,
> a/a the W Empire, which spoke Latin, which led to French, Spanish etc.
> presumably Russian & Ukrainian started out with the same alphabet,
> but when & how they may have diverged i don't know (possibly LP does):
> Lenin added a couple of letters to the Russian alphabet,
and delete a few.

> which may not have been used by Ukrainians,
> but while Ukraine was part of the USSR it may have been somewhat russified,
> something they may recently have tried to reverse.
Not in this area :-)

> so how exactly do the Russian & Ukrainian alphabets differ?
make a diff -u koi8r-uni.tbl koi8u-uni.tbl
I am afraid through few Russian letters are not included in Ukrainian alphabet.
Ask a Ukrainian-speaking person or a literature for more info.
Actually these two languages based on Medieval Slavic language
(drevneslavyankii, which is a prime language for Russian Orthodox Church now),
so the deviation was far before Lenin, and Ukrainian seems to be
more consistent with drevneslavyansky).
Off topic.

> and what exactly does Lynx need to be able to serve Ukrainian properly?
it already does.