Hallo Jonathan!

 JdBP> There is no such thing as "8-bit ASCII".  ASCII is a 7-bit 
 JdBP> character set.  

Yes, of course.

 JdBP> code pages, not ASCII.  So the above would have been better 
 JdBP> expressed by saying that to use Cyrillic letters one uses either 
 JdBP> ISO 8859-5 or one of the Cyrillic code pages (855, 866, or 915).

To be complete, you must add KOI8-R, BTW :-). But WRT fidonet, one has
agreed on codepage 866 (for Russian cyrillic) as far as I can tell. I
suppose 855 and 915 are for southern slavic languages?

Viele Gr��e,
Tobias

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