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+""" Python Character Mapping Codec for KOI8U.
+
+    This character scheme is compliant to RFC2319
+
+Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg (mal@lemburg.com).
+Modified by Maxim Dzumanenko <mvd@mylinux.com.ua>.
+
+(c) Copyright 2002, Python Software Foundation.
+
+"""#"
+
+import codecs, koi8_r
+
+### Codec APIs
+
+class Codec(codecs.Codec):
+
+    def encode(self,input,errors='strict'):
+
+        return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
+
+    def decode(self,input,errors='strict'):
+
+        return codecs.charmap_decode(input,errors,decoding_map)
+
+class StreamWriter(Codec,codecs.StreamWriter):
+    pass
+
+class StreamReader(Codec,codecs.StreamReader):
+    pass
+
+### encodings module API
+
+def getregentry():
+
+    return (Codec().encode,Codec().decode,StreamReader,StreamWriter)
+
+### Decoding Map
+
+decoding_map = koi8_r.decoding_map.copy()
+decoding_map.update({
+        0x00a4: 0x0454, #       CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE
+        0x00a6: 0x0456, #       CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
+        0x00a7: 0x0457, #       CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YI (UKRAINIAN)
+        0x00ad: 0x0491, #       CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER UKRAINIAN GHE WITH UPTURN
+        0x00b4: 0x0403, #       CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE
+        0x00b6: 0x0406, #       CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
+        0x00b7: 0x0407, #       CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YI (UKRAINIAN)
+        0x00bd: 0x0490, #       CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER UKRAINIAN GHE WITH UPTURN
+})
+
+### Encoding Map
+
+encoding_map = codecs.make_encoding_map(decoding_map)