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. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less." - "Disciple", Stuart Davis - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
