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Computer Russification

In computing, Russification ( ) involves the localization of computers and software, allowing the user interface of a computer and its software to communicate in the Russian language using Cyrillic script. Problems associated with Russification before the advent of Unicode included the absence of a single character-encoding standard for Cyrillic.

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In computing, Russification ( ) involves the localization of computers and software, allowing the user interface of a computer and its software to communicate in the Russian language using Cyrillic script. Problems associated with Russification before the advent of Unicode included the absence of a single character-encoding standard for Cyrillic.

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