status of ISO-8859-5 charset in Russia?

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Subject: status of ISO-8859-5 charset in Russia?
From: Sergei Kolobov <sergei@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:01:19 +0400
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On 2003-10-16 at 10:12 +0200, Andrei A. Voropaev wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:49:17PM +0200, Alain Bench wrote:
> > What's the usage status of ISO-8859-5 charset in Russia?
> 
> As far as I know ISO-8859-5 is barely used by anyone. Most of people are
> either on Windows with CP1251 or on Linux with koi8r

Alain,

I agree with Andrei - I have yet to see a single message with 
ISO-8859-5 charset. I don't think this charset is used by anyone 
in "real-life environment" in Russia and other CIS countries.
Andrei's right - the two most common charsets are those he mentioned.

Sergei

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- Re: multiple entries in send_charset
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- Re: multiple entries in send_charset
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