Chapter 5. Characters in Each Country

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  Windows 1251

  CP 866

  ISO 8859 5

  MAC CYRILLIC

  ISO IR 111

So, Russian computers really live in  Charset mix , like Japanese : Shift JIS, ISO2022 JP, EUC 

JP. You can get e mail in any charset, so your Mail Agent should understand all this charsets.

Takasiganai.

In POSIX environment you should setup FULL locale name (with .Charset field) :

LANG=ru_RU.KOI8 R

LANG=ru_RU.ISO_8859 5

LANG=ru_RU.CP1251

e.t.c. for proper sorting, character classification and for readable messages. Any form of abbrevia 

tions ( 

ru

 ,  

ru_RU

  e.t.c.) are sourse of misunderstanding. I hope, Unicode

LANG=ru_RU.UTF 8

will save us in near future. . .