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<sect id="cyrillic"><heading>Languages with Cyrillic script</heading>
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Section written by
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Alexander Voropay <email>a.voropay@globalone.ru</email>.
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First of all, there are a lot of languages with Cyrillic script.
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</P>
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Slavic languages : Russian (ru), Ukrainian (uk), Belarussian (be),
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Bulgarian (bg), Serbian (sr), and Macedonian (mk).
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Another Slavic languages (Polish(pl), Czech(cz), Croatian(hr)) uses
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Latin script : mainly ISO-8859-2 (Central-European).
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During USSR time some non-slavic languages got own alpabets, based
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on modifyed cyrillic characters. Azerbaijani (az), Turkmen (tk), Kurdish (ku),
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Uzbek (uz), Kazakh (kk), Kirghiz (ky), Tajik (tg) and Mongolian (mn)
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Komi (kv) e.t.c.
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<list>
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<item><url id="http://www.peoples.org.ru/eng_index.html">
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<item><url id="http://www-hep.fzu.cz/~piska/">
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<item><url id="http://www.srpsko-pismo.org/">
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<item><url id="http://www.hr/hrvatska/language/CroLang.html">
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<item><url id="http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/localization/charsets/cs-encodings-faq">
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</list>
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</P>
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<P>
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UNICODE has rich Cyrillic section.
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Ufortunately, there are a lot of 8-bit Cyrillic Charsets. There is no
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one universal 8-bit Cyrillic charset, because, for example, there
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are about 260 Cyrillic characters in
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<url
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id="http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/PDFS/TN/5013.Cyrillic_Font_Spec.pdf"
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name="Adobe Glyph List">.
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The overview "<url id="http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html"
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name="The Cyrillic Charset Soup">".
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The main problem with Russian : there are at least six live Charsets:
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<list>
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<item>KOI8-R
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<item>Windows-1251
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<item>CP-866
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<item>ISO-8859-5
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<item>MAC-CYRILLIC
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<item>ISO-IR-111
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</list>
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So, Russian computers really live in "Charset mix", like Japanese :
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Shift-JIS, ISO2022-JP, EUC-JP. You can get e-mail in any charset,
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so your Mail Agent should understand all this charsets. Takasiganai.
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In POSIX environment you should setup FULL locale name (with
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.Charset field) :
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<example>
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LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R
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LANG=ru_RU.ISO_8859-5
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LANG=ru_RU.CP1251
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</example>
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e.t.c. for proper sorting, character classification and for readable
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messages. Any form of abbreviations ("<tt>ru</tt>", "<tt>ru_RU</tt>"
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e.t.c.) are sourse of misunderstanding.
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I hope, Unicode <tt>LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8</tt> will save
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us in near future...
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