Revision 1 (23.01.2004)
This is Amiga-1251 character set, it was originally developed back in
1992 and has slowly evolved to what it is now. This page specifies the
Amiga-1251 character set that is used for development of russian locale for
Amiga range of computers and Amiga OS 4 (see www.amiga.com). It is also
planned to be used in MorphOS, AROS and other Amiga OS derived projects.
This character set was initially based on ISO-8859-1, it also includes
ISO-8859-15 Euro sign, Numero Sign and the Windows-1251 cyrillic chars 168,
184, 192-255. (The cyrillic symbols have matched the Windows-1251 purely
by accident but now play a very important role in terms of compatibility to
reading the many text files that come in that format without the need to
convert them). The character set name suggests that it is an Amiga
character set and that it is very close related to 1251. The decision to
develop a new charset was chosen due to the fact that Windows-1251
character set defines characters in the 128-159 range which is reserved for
system control and escape sequences under AmigaOS and can not be used.
Charset name: Amiga-1251
MIBenum: 2104 (see www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets)
Charset aliases: Ami1251, Amiga1251, Ami-1251
(Aliases are provided for historical reasons and should not be used)
Suitability for use in MIME text: YES
Additional information:
Developed by Michael Malyshev
ATO-RU (Amiga Translation Organization - Russian Department)
Email: Michael_Malyshev(at)mail.ru
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