Another script translating from one non-standard Cyrillic code page to another (by adding offset). This time in python. Circa 2004

fixcyr.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: windows-1251 -*-
r"""
:Authors:       Dimitar A. Dimitrov
:Contact:       dimiter[at]blue[dash]edge[dot]bg
:Copyright:     This work is licensed under the X license.
                For the full text of the license see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/xnet.php

:Version:       0.1
:Date:          2004-08-22

:Abstract:      This script tries to extract cyrillic text from custom codepage.
"""
import os, sys

alpha_upper = 0x80
alpha_lower = 0xA0
        
input = open(sys.argv[1])
text = input.read()
input.close()

output = open(sys.argv[1] + ".cyr", "w")
for c in text:
    code = ord(c)
    if c == "�": c = "-"
    elif c in "��": c = "|"
    elif c == "�": c="�"
    elif code in range(alpha_upper, alpha_upper + 31): c = chr(ord("�") + code - alpha_upper)
    elif code in range(alpha_lower, alpha_lower + 31): c = chr(ord("�") + code - alpha_lower)
    output.write(c)
    
output.close()
print "done."