> It does, but in a very stupid way. That's why personally I prefer KOI8-R for > Cyrillic-only texts (primarily, Russian), and use UTF-8 only for Chinese.
Interesting. Exactly what in the U+0400 - U+04FF range do you find to be at fault with respect the the Russian language?
Also I don't see KOI8-R in fts-5003.001 but then again the so-called level 2 supported codepages are all questionable as to being anything useful to whatever language they claim to support. Also too many sysops misidentify their codepage to start with so the whole premise of fts-5003.001 is highly dubious, especially considering the so-called levels.
Despite the above, the ONLY one that actually works is UTF-8, and that includes pure ascii text. The rest could easily fall by the wayside. I note that UTF-16 isn't in there. It isn't too hard to guess why that is given that it cannot do pure ascii. That must be why Microsoft liked it so much. ;-)
