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From: Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca>
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Subject: Re: Bulgarian keyboard layouts
Date: 31 Jan 1996 15:53:34 -0700
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In article <4elrdb$2v9@news.cict.fr> Gavrilov <gavrilov@cict.fr> writes:
> 
> Can you help me? I have a Macintosh and cyrilic fonts. I wont to send my 
> texts in cyrilic by e-mail to someone that has a PC. However the 
> cyrillic Mac fonts and the PC ones seem to be not compatible. What can 
> we do? Thanks.

If you know a bit of C and have access to a C compiler, one solution is to
install filters at both ends that would translate from the Mac encoding to
7-bit ASCII and then to the PC encoding. This also eliminates possible
problems with having to send 8-bit text through email. However, this can
only work for text files, not wordprocessor files. The 7-bit ASCII looks
something like: 
  This is English, /+a towa we~e e bylgarski. /-more English.
and can be produced/read by a human, if need be.

Below is the source for the outgoing and incoming filter. You'll need to
modify the outgoing filter (frompc) to suit the Mac encoding.


/* frompc.c */
#define ESC '/'  /* the escape char */
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

char xlat[64+1]="\
ABWGDEVZIJKLMNOPRSTUFHC~{}Y@X@|Q\
abwgdevzijklmnoprstufhc`[]y@x@\\q";

void main(void)
{
  int cyr=0; /* cyr mode on */
  int c;

  while ((c=getch())!=EOF) {
	if (c<128) {
	  if (cyr && strchr(xlat,c)) { putch(ESC); putch('-'); cyr=0; }
      putch(c);
	} else {
	  if (!cyr) { putch(ESC); putch('+'); cyr=1; }
      putch(xlat[c-128]);
	}
  }								
}


/* topc.c */
#define ESC '/'  /* the escape char */
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

char xlat[64+1]="\
ABWGDEVZIJKLMNOPRSTUFHC~{}Y@X@|Q\
abwgdevzijklmnoprstufhc`[]y@x@\\q";

void main(void)
{
  int cyr=0; /* cyr mode on */
  int esc=0; /* ESC was read */
  int c;
  char *s;

  while ((c=getch(stdio))!=EOF) {
	if (esc) {
	  esc=0;
	  if (c=='+') { cyr=1; continue; }
	  if (c=='-') { cyr=0; continue; }
	  putch(ESC);
	}
	if (c==ESC) { esc=1; continue; }
	if (cyr && (s=strchr(xlat,c))!=NULL) c=128+xlat-s;
	putchar(c);
  }
  if (esc) putch(ESC);
}