Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] kudrashov cyrillic

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

> I'm working with some Russian text files from around 1995 that were then 
> put into Microsoft Word 6.  They are readable only with a font called 
> Kudriashov (aka Kudrashov).  I presume somehow a unique encoding was 
> merged with the font.  If I copy and paste into an email or web page 
> everything is garbled unless the computer has Kudrashov.
> 
> ... I don't 
> know the Kudrashov character map in relation to other cyrillic character 
> maps.  Anyone here knowledgeable?

Indeed, for being able to convert old text documents you need the character
map.

If web search engines don't give you a pointer to such a mapping table, you
can produce one by yourself. It's a bit tedious, but here's how it works:
The attached file contains all character codes used in Cyrillic encodings,
each in a line with its code. You load this file in a text editor with the
Kudrashov fonts and look which characters are displayed on the right-hand side.
For each character you look up where in Unicode it occurs, for example by
using the Unicode code charts at <http://www.unicode.org/charts/>.
For example, if the character in the fourth line is shown as a
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER I, then you know that 0xA3 maps to U+0414. And so on.

Bruno
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character-table.txt
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