-=> Quoting Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to Tobias Ernst <=-

 TE> Cyrillic is not a double byte characer set; cyrillic letters are
 TE> encoded in 8 bit ASCII [...]

 JdBP> There is no such thing as "8-bit ASCII".  ASCII is a
7-bit character
 JdBP> set.   
 JdBP> 8-bit character sets are the ISO 8859 character sets and the IBM PC
 JdBP> code pages, not ASCII.  So the above would have been better expressed
 JdBP> by saying that to use Cyrillic letters one uses either ISO 8859-5 or
 JdBP> one of the Cyrillic code pages (855, 866, or 915). 

Or some other set such as KOI-8. Remember, ISO-8859 and PC codepages
*aren't* the only character sets in use. 


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