> > ALT -> IBM866
>
> Just a quick comment: ALT is not necessarily IBM866.
> It can be any US-ASCII or 26-character-alphabet Latin set, for example
> IBM819 or ISO8859-1. Is actually quite different from IBM866 in its
> true meaning, and they shouldn't be aliased together. ALT is used for example,
> when none of KOI8-R, Windows-1251, or IBM866 are available to a Russian-speaking
> person to read/write any text, messages and stuff, we use simple English letters
> to write words in Russian so that pronunciation sort of holds the same. It's
> something like russian_latin (as an equivalent to greek_latin in the
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets spec), and the writing this
> way reminds Polish or Serbian-Latin a bit.
Ok. Let's leave ALT as it is.
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Tatsuo Ishii