Vladimir Volovich writes:
 >
 > i meant primarily software (mail readers, browsers, etc) which
 > supported only standard ISO encodings but ignored encodings such as
 > koi8-r or ms codepages. it was mainly developped not in russia.

Well, Linux soft mainly use koi8, and no possibility to compel
any Netscape Navigator to work more-or-less adequate with anything
except koi8.

  - ptr