Laurent Siebenmann writes:
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 > Petr Ovchenkov <ptr@ParaGraph.Ru> writes:
 >
 >  > Well, Linux soft mainly use koi8, and no possibility to
 >  > compel any Netscape Navigator to work more-or-less adequate
 >  > with anything except koi8.
 >
 >  > Sun Microsystems: Solaris 2.x, 7, 8 (SPARC and x86).
 >  > Preference of SMS is ISO 8859-5 for russian locale.
 >
 >      Great! We are gradually piecing together a panorama.  Can
 > anyone tell whether Hewlitt Packard uses ISO 8859-5?
 >

At least HP-UX 10.01 and 11.00 has ISO 8859-5 fonts and no koi8. So, I think,
HP prefer ISO 8859-5 for russian local.
    -) I check this: HP unambiguous support ISO 8859-5 russian local.

       - ptr

P.S. IMHO ISO 8859-5 is good by one reason: it's only STANDARD.