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It's a shame they use ISO-8859-5 as an example because it was never used by anyone in practice. It's a stillborn standard. First, we had IBM-866 and КОИ-8 aka
by guard-of-terra 12y ago
It's a shame they use ISO-8859-5 as an example because it was never used by anyone in practice. It's a stillborn standard.
First, we had IBM-866 and КОИ-8 aka KOI8-R, then painfully switched to WINDOWS-1251, and then Unicode. ISO-8859-5 was never adopted by anyone.
- Moru 12y agoThat's funny, this survey says it's still in use: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-iso885905/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-iso885905/all/all Quelle.ru uses iso-8859-5.
- guard-of-terra 12y agohttp://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-windows1251/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-windows1251/all/a... Three orders of magnitude more for the de-facto standard. Which is, according to the site, third popular after unicode and latin1. Of course, it's technically possible to use ISO-8859-5, some misguided software might even default to it. But it's exceedingly rare and doesn't have a point. Even KOI8-R is ten times more widely used.