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Nick Szabo

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Jun 2, 1994, 12:56:23 AM6/2/94
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Do there exist any standards and/or software for transmitting
Chinese, Cyrillic, etc. characters efficiently via HTTP and
displaying them in browsers? Who is working on it?

thanks,
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Nick Szabo sz...@netcom.com
"If you want to hit the moon tommorrow, aim for London today."

Alex Gagin

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Jun 4, 1994, 3:23:41 AM6/4/94
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Thu, 2 Jun 1994 04:56:23 GMT Nick Szabo (sz...@netcom.com) wrote:
> Do there exist any standards and/or software for transmitting
> Chinese, Cyrillic, etc. characters efficiently via HTTP and

In fact, here in Russia already working several servers with cyrillic
layouts. All you need to read it - russian KOI8 fonts.
For example, try www.kiae.su
Fonts can be available via www.elvis.msk.su

Ryouji Hasegawa

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Jun 6, 1994, 12:14:51 AM6/6/94
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In <szaboCq...@netcom.com>, Nick Szabo (sz...@netcom.com) wrote:
> Do there exist any standards and/or software for transmitting
> Chinese, Cyrillic, etc. characters efficiently via HTTP and
> displaying them in browsers? Who is working on it?

Mosaic-L10N support
Character Set Encoding
-----------------------------------------------------
Cyrillic ISO 8859-5 8-bit
Cyrillic KOI-8 8-bit
Greek ISO 8859-7 8-bit
Hebrew ISO 8859-8 8-bit
Turkish ISO 8859-9 Latin-5 8-bit
Chinese GB 2312 GB/HZ encoding
Chinese Big5 Big5
Korean KSC 5601 EUC,ISO-2022-KR
Japanese JIS X 0208 EUC,ISO-2022-JP

See
http://www.ntt.jp/Mosaic-l10n/README.html
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Ryouji Hasegawa (hase...@cec.co.jp)
Chuo Electronics Co.,Ltd. Tokyo, Japan

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