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

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Subject: Re: Transliteration for Cyrillic (UTF-8 support for freedb and Ogg Vorbis)
From: David Starner <dstarner98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:48:49 -0500
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:24:08AM +0200, Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller wrote:
> BTW: Why the hell are upper and lower case interchanged in 
> KOI8-R???

My guess would be backward-compatibility. Older Russian character sets
were 7 bit, overlaying Cyrllic characters on Latin characters. If the
cases were reversed, you knew you needed to switch modes.

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References:
- Transliteration for Cyrillic (UTF-8 support for freedb and Ogg Vorbis)
  - From: Alexander Voropay
- Re: Transliteration for Cyrillic (UTF-8 support for freedb and Ogg Vorbis)
  - From: Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller

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