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Linux is not the only system Emacs runs on. Other encodings like
cp1251 or cp866 may suit better for some people - and it doesn't
depends upon OS only (I'm running Windows NT and still prefer
cyrillic-koi8 because it seems to affect mail/news only there koi8-r
is de-facto standard).

elkin@astro.spbu.ru writes:

> IMHO most Linux cyrillic emacsers really preferred koi8-r.
> Would it better to change
> the default cons (at characters.el)
> (cyrillic-iso8859-5 . cyrillic-iso-8bit)
> to  
> (cyrillic-iso8859-5 . cyrillic-koi8)
> according to your advice?
> 
> Maybe such setting should be
> done at emacs building/configuration time (e.g thru locale variables value)?

-- 
 							With regards, Roman.