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From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@rock.lot.kiev.ua>
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To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: X11R6.1 available...  Should we use?
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In article <199605241807.LAA01418@phaeton.artisoft.com> you wrote:
> > =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) (ache@astral.msk.su) wrote:

> I'm still really curious what KOI-8 buys you that the ISO 8859
> character set does not.

> Maybe I'm insane, but I don't think it matters which bit pattern
> represents which character, as long as all the characters are
> there...

it buys me reading russian-language 8-bit mail, news, and WWW pages without
installing proxies and/or local mailers which do recoding (oh, well, and
please don't tell me I should use MIME - the overall brokennsess of 
character conversion support is still widespread (can mail(1) do it, e.g.? ;-))

remember, russian is native language for many of us;  imagine you have
EBCDIC on your machine when almost everybody else uses ASCII. ;-)