Re: lynx-dev Ukrainian charsets...

[Leonid Pauzner]

19-Feb-99 11:35 Philip Webb wrote:
> 990218 Leonid Pauzner enlightened us:
>> 17-Feb-99 14:21 Philip Webb wrote:
>>> so how exactly do the Russian & Ukrainian alphabets differ?
>> make a diff -u koi8r-uni.tbl koi8u-uni.tbl

> where do i find these? they don't seem to be in the 2-8-2 package.
hint:  src/chrtrans/

>> Actually these two languages based on Medieval Slavic language
>> (drevneslavyankii, which is a prime language for Russian Orthodox Church),
>> Ukrainian seems to be more consistent with drevneslavyansky.
>> Off topic.

> yes, but close: Lynx tries to accommodate the World's languages,
lynx just trying to accomodate characters
while humans are reading texts (with a limited ability to understand :-)
> so lynx-devers need to have some basic information available,
> quite apart from the subject's inherent interest.
> your account makes sense: there's no exact parallel to Ancient Slavic,
> but the Oxford English Dictionary is full of references
> to Old High German, Old Norse, etc, from which sister languages
> like German & Dutch (close) & Icelandic (more distant) also descended;
> then there's Latin, Italian & French in another family.

I beleave you will find a very few reference to Slavic languages
in the English dictionary, they probably have Greek in between.