From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-08 18:59:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? Date: Thu, 9 Oct 3 06:05:50 +0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <3F8476FD.1030009@comcast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1065664658 80716 80.67.180.195 (9 Oct 2003 01:57:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 01:57:38 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: X-Mailer: BML [MS/DOS Beauty Mail v1.36H] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:511 Date: 2003-10-09T06:05:50+04:00 Robert I. Eachus wrote (about Unicode): > As far as I know, the fall of the Soviet Union has ended the problem the > Russians had with including some Georgian letters, Georgian? This seems strange... well, I could expect any twist from Soviet representatives in international organizations, but I can't guess any reasons for this particular one. There could be another problem, which had some political potential - there were several Russian letters that were used before 1918, and were forcibly excluded from the alphabet by early Communist decree. These letters weren't used in Soviet times (being qualified as things from "damned Tsarist past"), and any attempt to give them some official status could invoke resistance. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia