>Does postgres contain any kind of support for utf-8

Yes. If you build PostgreSQL with --with-mb, you could make a UTF-8
encoded database.

$ createdb -E UNIOCE

>or does anybody have a C-source/example/description of conversion 
>of cyrillic from utf-8 to koi-8 ?         
>(rfc2044/2279 is already read by me ;-)) )

Go www.unicode.org. If you were lucky you will find a conversion table
for koi-8.
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Tatsuo Ishii

Sun, 27 Jun 1999 00:55:55 +0900
Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
Re: utf-8 