Cyrillic Tables for PC-Pine (Windows)
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Use these tables when you work with Windows-1251 fonts on your PC.
Windows-1251 covers Belarussian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian,
Ukrainian.


Table      		Character Mapping

i8859-5.win		iso-8859-5 -> windows-1251
o8859-5.win		iso-8859-5 <- windows-1251
iir111 .win		iso-ir-111 -> windows-1251
oir111 .win		iso-ir-111 <- windows-1251
identity   		none

The layout of the Russian letters in ISO-IR-111 is commonly known as
KOI-8 or KOI8 or KOI8-R. But ISO-IR-111 contains also the non-Russian
Slavic Cyrillic letters; see the included picture, cyrgif\ir111.gif,
and <http://www.fingertipsoft.com/ref/cyrillic/isoir111.html>.


Let's assume that you have Pine and related files in the directory c:\pine.
Then your autoexec.bat should contain the following two lines:
  set iso_to_cp=c:\pine\itable
  set cp_to_iso=c:\pine\otable


(a) To exchange mail in ISO-8859 Cyrillic ("iso-8859-5" or "iso-ir-144")

    In your Pine configuration, define character-set as "iso-8859-5";
    copy the file "i8859-5.win" to "c:\pine\itable";
    copy the file "o8859-5.win" to "c:\pine\otable".

(b) To exchange mail in KOI-8 ("iso-ir-111")

    In your Pine configuration, define character-set as "iso-ir-111";
    copy the file "iir111.win" to "c:\pine\itable";
    copy the file "oir111.win" to "c:\pine\otable".

(c) To exchange mail in Windows Cyrillic ("windows-1251")

    In your Pine configuration, define character-set as "windows-1251";
    copy the file "identity" to "c:\pine\itable";
    copy the file "identity" to "c:\pine\otable".


You see that you have to copy files again whenever you want another
character mapping. This is ridiculous. Write to <pine@cac.washington.edu>
and suggest that they find a more flexible solution!



References
<ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/charmaps/ECMA-CYRILLIC>
<ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets>
<ftp://unicode.org/pub/UNIX/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-5.TXT>
<ftp://unicode.org/pub/UNIX/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1251.TXT>
<http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine/tech-notes/low-level.html#char-set>
<http://www.fingertipsoft.com/ref/cyrillic/charsets.html>
<http://www.iso.ch/infoe/agency/2375.html>