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The choice of Cyrillic translations seems arbitrary to me. There is a well known Morse code convention (Q=Щ, V=Ж, W=В, X=Ь, Y=Ы).


The problem with e.g. W=В or X=Ь is that they want glyph matching; so the roman alphabet B and the cyrillic alphabet В (even though they are different letters) map to each other, to avoid having same-looking codes map to different locations. They're solving a slightly different problem than the Morse convention was trying to solve.




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