Quote Originally Posted by Clootie
dmantione is 100% right - there will be no automatic transliteration.

Example of text file you'll probably get from translator: http://www.frei.ru/golos/chat/100798.txt (this seems to be a log from a chat program)
understood, this is transliterated using the position of the chars, so char 235 will remains char 235, on a single byte charset. This is was EAST has used if I understand well.