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-rw-r--r--lisp/language/cyrillic.el6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/language/cyrillic.el b/lisp/language/cyrillic.el
index e58fdd0db7f..f01f6d3be5d 100644
--- a/lisp/language/cyrillic.el
+++ b/lisp/language/cyrillic.el
@@ -93,7 +93,11 @@
(make-coding-system
'koi8-r 4
- ?K "Coding-system used for KOI8."
+ ;; We used to use ?K. It is true that ?K is more strictly correct,
+ ;; but it is also used for Korean.
+ ;; So people who use koi8 for languages other than Russian
+ ;; will have to forgive us.
+ ?R "Coding-system used for KOI8."
(cons ccl-decode-koi8 ccl-encode-koi8))
(define-coding-system-alias 'koi8-r 'koi8)