Transliteration for Cyrillic (UTF-8 support for freedb and Ogg Vorbis)

["Alexander Voropay" <a.voropay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


>The first problem is to provide a good transliteration
>table: glibc and libiconv don't transliterate Cyrillics, I think, so
>can anyone recommend such a table?

 You could translate Unicode to KOI8-R table and clear 8-th bit.
The KOI8-* charsets was invented to work at non 8-bit cleant equipment
in mid-80. Practically all Russians can read such transliteration.

KOI8-R (RFC-1489 : ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1489.txt )
http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html
Mapping table : ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/WG15-collection/charmaps/KOI8-R


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