Re: TECH: Cyrillics (was: Russian, anyone?)

Hello,

> Now, I'm no expert on either Cyrillic or encoding systems, but isn't
> there a cyrillic encoding (and I think it _was_ KOI-8R, but I'm not
> sure) designed specifically so that if it gets the 8th bit removed,
> the ASCII characters produced are a rough transliteration?  I remember
> reading an article on this a long time ago - seems it contributed to
> the mass adoption of this encoding, as mails could be read even when
> bit-stripped, which happened a lot in the early days of the Russian
> Internet.
FIDO rather.

But yes, in KOI8 (not only KOI8-R, there's, for instance, the KOI8-U)
the Cyrillic characters are encoded, as far as this is possible,
according to the corresponding Latin letters. So in Win-1251 the
Cyrillic letters go _a, b, v, g, d, e_, and in KOI8 _a, b, ts, d, e, f,
g_. Some correspondences however are rather unpredictable (AFAIR the
jery (bl) is coded where the _q_ is)

Pavel
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