Created attachment 171507 [details] Cyrillic letters (small and capital) The MIK character set was the most widely used encoding of Cyrillic letters in Bulgaria during the DOS era. There is a substantial amount of Lotus 1-2-3 files written in MIK. Because they are in a binary format (WK1), pure text converters are not able to convert the encoding in them without destroying the file format. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIK_(character_set) Code page 866 is a close partial substitute.
DOS era is ended around 25 years ago, and today all software shoud work using UTF-8. I disagree with the idea. Mike, what do you think about this?
I don't quite see why we couldn't have another table for MIK. IMO, that would align with "document liberation" goal. Stephan, Eike: any blockers or something that would make it undesirable?
Never heard of MIK charset, but why not support it if it was actually used and would be needed to import legacy documents. From a "DOS era is ended around 25 years ago, and today all software shoud work using UTF-8" standpoint we could throw away at least 4/5 of all encodings we support.