From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <see_below AT the_message_body DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Character differences
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <see_below AT the_message_body DOT com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 11:33:12 +0400
> >
> > > Are you sure your DOS codepage is 866?  My references indicate it's
> > > 855, not 866.
> >
> > In the ages of Windows 3.1X I needed to have 866 code page both for windows
> > and DOS. Perhaps there are several Russian code pages are present, but I
> > worked with 866 all the time.
> 
> Hmm...  It looks like cp866 is for Russian only, while cp855 covers
> also Cyrillic characters used in other languages.  I'll add cp866 to
> Emacs.
> 
> Thanks!

Yup, perhaps there is a universal codepage with cyrillic stuff because
Russian language is not the only one that uses them. But for sure, CP866 is
in use by Russian Win 3.1X.

bye.
Alexei A. Frounze
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