Mathematical Typesetting in Russian with ТеХ

[aciel.livejournal.com]

This post is only going to be of interest to a very small number of people. =P Sorry.

I was wondering if any of you scientist types in this community could tell me something about scientific and mathematical typesetting in Russian. For English, we use ТеХ, but it only works on 7-bit ASCII files and as far as I knew, most Russian characters are stored in the eighth bit (to which ТеХ doesn't pay attention).

Comments

[khathi.livejournal.com]

Ah! That's the thing. 'Cause, you know, 7-bit standard was hardly used as is anywhere except US, as in Europe already extensions come in use, and in non-latin countries it was even worse. But the name "ASCII" stuck, I believe...

[gland.livejournal.com]

I've never heard it called anything but the ANSI extended character set.