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.
>
> And which is still the standard in Russian-language newsgroups,
> for russian Unix users and most of Russian-language web pages?
>
> koi8-r, one of the oldest cyrillic charsets, primarily designed to keep
> "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.
Wrong, you are comparing apples and oranges again --
cyrillic (8859-5) encoding with russian (koi8-r) one.
Never say never -- if you do not know about 8859-5
usage is does not mean "not used by everyone".
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