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+2004-12-09  John Thacker <thacker@math.cornell.edu>
+
+	reviewed by: Keith Packard  <keithp@keithp.com>
+
+	* fc-lang/ru.orth:
+	
+	Currently Russian (ru) requires 0406 and 0456 (І and і), but these
+	were eliminated in Russian in 1918 in favor of 0418 and 0438 (И and
+	и), and don't even appear in KOI8-R.  (The hypothesis that they
+	don't appear in KOI8-R due to their similarity with Latin I and i is
+	eliminated by their presence in KOI8-U.)  I have a couple of fonts
+	with Russian support that don't have the letter.
+
+	Therefore, 0406 and 0456 should be removed from or commented out of
+	ru.orth
+
 2004-12-06  michael meeks <mmeeks@novell.com>
 
 	Reviewed by: Keith Packard  <keithp@keithp.com>
diff --git a/fc-lang/ru.orth b/fc-lang/ru.orth
index 308dff3..c4c23be 100644
--- a/fc-lang/ru.orth
+++ b/fc-lang/ru.orth
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@
 #00ab
 #00bb
 0401
-0406
+#0406		# eliminated in 1918 in favor of 418
 0410-044f
 0451
-0456
+#0456		# eliminated in 1918 in favor of 438
 #0462		# CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YAT
 #0463		# CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YAT
 #0472		# CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER FITA