Serbian cyrillic letters (again)

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@compuserve.com)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 09:45:27 EDT

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Valeriy Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> wrote:

> Because of some weird numerology about cp866 (DOS cyrillic) CYRILLIC
> CAPITAL LETTER EN is mangled by fidonet software. So they invented a
> workaround - people use LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H instead.

Is this because U+041D CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN is 0x8D in CP866, and
FidoNET treats this as 0x0D CARRIAGE RETURN with the high bit set?

Just wondering.

-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California

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