I'm not sure what the problem is. The following works quite well: Regards, BV
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -*- mode: LaTeX; coding: utf-8; -*- %%% Moroz_koi koi.tex %%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% %% Date: 9-Aug-2002 %% Author: wd (wolfgang.dob...@ncl.ac.uk) % \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % older versions of ucs package %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % more recent versions (at least>=2004-17-10) \usepackage[russian]{babel} \sloppy % Hyphenation is a problem.. \author{A. S. Pushkin} \title{Зимнее утро (winter morning)} \begin{document} \maketitle \section{A section} \noindent Мороз и солнце, день чудесный!\\ Ещё ты дремлешь, друг прелестный?\\ Пора, красавица, проснись! \subsection{Accented characters} You can still use accents and diacritica as usual: \begin{quote} Übermäßiger Likörgenuss in der Öffentlichkeit führt zu Ärger \end{quote} \begin{quote} Être ou ne pas être --- c'est une question très intéressante en Français \end{quote} \subsection{Шрифты} {\sc Конечно} {\bf все} {\em варианты} {\TeX}овских {\sl шрифтов} доступны и с {\sf кириллицей}. \end{document} %% Emacs-Mule quick reference: %% C-\ toggles input methods (cyrillic/ascii) %% C-x RET C-\ switches to (yet) another input method %% C-x RET f changes the buffer-coding system % Make Emacs switch to russian keyboard layout % %% [Better not to use this 1] Local Variables: %% [Better not to use this 2] eval: (set-input-method 'cyrillic-jcuken) %% [Better not to use this 3] End: On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 1:01 AM, Alex Degtyarev via MiKTeX-Users < miktex-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > There seems to have been an unpleasant change in the default configuration. > > Occasionally, I have to write things in Russian. For an obvious > compatibility reason, I prefer to keep my files in the plain text format, > switching to the CP1251 in the editors and relying upon TeX and Babel that > do the job perfectly well. Last time I did that (a few months ago) > everything was perfect: the file was ASCII while WinEdt was showing it with > the correct codepage. However, today, when I tried to open one of the old > files, changed CP to 1251 and hit "Reload", I got a mess like this: > \`{A}\^{a}\`{o}\^{\i}р \`{e}\c{c}\'{o}ч\`{a}{\aa}\`{o} \`{o}р\`{e} ... > This has obviously something to do with the TeX settings, as I have > recently > tried to use WinEdt to recode other (non TeX) files to Unicode and > everything worked well. A quick check shows that I don't have any unusual > read/write translation tables enabled except the most common ones, with > accented Latin characters (which would be supposed to work the opposite way > anyway). If I just load the file without changing the CP (or open it in > notepad), it looks like a typical Russian text in the Latin codepage, as > it's supposed to. > > So, to make my complaint clear, I want to keep an ASCII TeX-file on the > disk > and edit it in a codepage of my choice. Alex, how can I fix this? And, > please, don't make such drastic changes without announcing them in bold red > font next to the download link! > > Best regards, > Alex > > P.S. Some other things have been broken, too. E.g., it appears that the new > compilation script does not call the old one, so the automatic format > detection has been broken and, apparently, has to be rewritten from the > scratch. But this I can live with... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Q: How can I leave the mailing list? > A: See http://docs.miktex.org/faq/support.html#leavingml > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Q: How can I leave the mailing list? A: See http://docs.miktex.org/faq/support.html#leavingml