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Cyrillic letters
Its quite exciting that we now have some support for the first non-roman alphabet.

With no special options, the Russian Cyrillic letters will be transliterated into ascii characters, meaning no more names will show up rather than being blank or question marks.

For devices that display cyrillic characters (and only a few do, or when firmware mods are applied) you can use the --charset=windows-1251 option.

There is more to do, and help is needed, for example the non-Russian Cyrillic letters. The same technique could be used with any character set that is capable of being transliterated without extra information. Latin1 and Latin2 are already done that way. Please see the Talk:Mkgmap/i18n page for some history.

So, it seems that you have a modern Garmin which supports it, but many others don't and I won't disable the transliteration unless I'm sure that older devices handle cp1251 well too. Still, even if they do, maybe I'll keep transliterating...