On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:02:28PM -0700, Alex Belits wrote:
>
> Can you guess, which one of of multiple cyrillic charsets never was
> actually used in Russia?
>
> ISO 8859-5.
It's actually being used quite often now by users of MS Outlook 2000
(those of them not sophisticated enough to select their own outgoing
encoding).
> And which is still the standard in Russian-language newsgroups,
> for russian Unix users and most of Russian-language web pages?
Cyrillic!=Russian.
> koi8-r, one of the oldest cyrillic charsets, primarily designed to keep
This is untrue. cp1251 is used in almost all Russian web pages, and
koi8-r is the minority (for no good reason, of course, primarily because
too many people never learned to set the right charset in the outgoing
HTTP headers).
> "intuitive" mapping to ASCII, to remain usable after passing through
> characters-mangling old software and to be readable on 7-bit dumb
> terminals -- and the last mentioned property is still saving a lot of
> trouble for Russians that use mail-to-pager systems. History is more
> complex than some people think.
And with all its attractive properties, it's still missing the letter
"yat'" that I need. It's there in Unicode, of course (and in 8859-5).
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