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It's needed to write about usage of Cyrillic code pages:

KOI8-R and KOI8-U
DOS codepage 866
Windows codepage 1251
ISO 8859-5

and keybord layouts:

layout "ЙЦУКЕН"
russian typewriter

-- Sergey kudryavtsev 08:04, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

notability

i don't think the subject of the article is notable. come on, translating computer interfrace to a single language just isn't complete. i think should be either extended to contain other 'troublesome' languages (provided russian really is such a language, i have no experience to judge with), merged with an existing article on that topic, or simply deleted - otherwise, we could just as well create separate pages for chinisification, japanesification, malaysification, arabification, etc, and that obviously wouldn't be good, now would it?--Ghazer (talk) 23:13, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Different encodings resulting in alphabet soup?

The following could be useful to add to this article if someone can find a source for it.

I remember, years ago, reading about a situation where someone in Russia had e-mailed his postal address to someone in an English-speaking country — and because the recipient of the e-mail didn't have the right character encoding set, the Russian-language text was scrambled into a meaningless hodge-podge of accented Latin letters (e.g., "МОСКВА" in Windows-1251 => "ÌÏÑÊÂÀ" in ISO-8859-1) — and the other person (being absolutely and utterly ignorant about Russian) meticulously copied this ridiculous jumble of characters onto a letter or package and mailed it to Russia — and some computer geek in a Russian post office realized what had happened, converted the accented ASCII alphabet soup back into Cyrillic, and the package was successfully delivered.

I even recall seeing a photo on the web, claiming to show the actual package in question. But I can't find it now. Surely someone out there must be familiar with this incident. As I said, I think it would be a useful improvement to this or some related article, as an illustration of the kind of confusion which resulted from the use of all these different character sets and "code pages" before Unicode came around. Richwales (talk) 20:42, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Funny story … after I read it here I searched and found it on the web: http://www.lebed.com/gbarch/gb20041002.htm (scroll down) —Quilbert (talk) 14:34, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I found it, somewhere else on Wikipedia (Mojibake#Problems in specific languages). The phenomenon is called "крякозябры". We should probably augment Computer russification with a link to this other page. Richwales (talk) 23:54, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

@Richwales and Quilbert: I found a photo of a Russian postal address in Western European mojibake, deciphered by Russian postal staff. See https://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/31409503070/russian-postmen-fix-an-error-caused-by-an/amp
--CiaPan (talk) 19:27, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect Computer Cyrillization

I redirected Computer Cyrillization to here since there is no seperate article not even part of article to redirect to it and this article is most representative of the effort. Also the process is called Computer Cirillization (кирилизация, кирилизация на компютъра) in Bulgarian language, I don't have information neither of the process, nor the history of the Cirillization in Bulgarian, so I guess this works as good info (probably in Bulgarian it is used Russian experience), it would be good if you can expand this article and if have desire work on a common article of the Cirillization. --Aleksd (talk) 16:26, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article title

Unless the exact two-word term "computer Russification" is in common use—and some searching suggests that it isn't—the article should probably be moved to Russification (computing) to comply better with our disambiguation conventions. Does anyone agree/disagree?

(As a reminder, the above two talk sections mention some redirects that will need double-redirect fixing if a move occurs.) --SoledadKabocha (talk) 00:45, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]