I'm not sure what the problem is. The following works quite well:
Regards, BV
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%% Date: 9-Aug-2002
%% Author: wd (wolfgang.dob...@ncl.ac.uk)
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\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
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%% [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...
>
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