KOI8-R
Character encoding
KOI8-R (RFC 1489) is an 8-bit character encoding derived from the KOI-8 encoding, created by the programmer Andrei Chernov in 1993. It was designed to encode Russian letters, using the Russian subset of a Cyrillic script. KOI-8 is an extension of the KOI-7 encoding, which inherited a phonetic correspondence of Russian, as well as Latin letters, from the MTK-2 teletype code. As a result, Russian Cyrillic letters in KOI8-R are in a pseudo-Latin alphabetical order, rather than a Cyrillic one, as in ISO 8859-5. This means that if the 8th bit is stripped, the text remains partially readable in any ASCII-based encoding (including KOI8-R itself) as a case-reversed transliteration. For example, "Код для обмена и обработки информации" (the Russian meaning of the "KOI" acronym) becomes: "kOD DLQ OBMENA I OBRABOTKI INFORMACII".
KOI-8 stands for: 8-bitnyy kod dlya obmena i obrabotki informatsii (Russian: 8-битный код для обмена и обработки информации), meaning "8-Bit Code for Information Interchange". In Microsoft Windows, KOI8-R is assigned the code page number 20866. In IBM, KOI8-R is assigned code page 878. KOI8-R also covers the Bulgarian alphabet.
It lacks proper quotation marks for both the Russian «...» and the Bulgarian „...“. Windows-1251 does support these among other, additional letters, and has thus become more popular. KOI8-R is used by less than 0.004% of websites, with the majority in Russia and Bulgaria. Unicode and UTF-8 are preferred to single-byte Cyrillic encodings in modern applications.
01Character set
The following table shows the KOI8-R encoding. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point.
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0x | ||||||||||||||||
| 1x | ||||||||||||||||
| 2x | SP | ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | / |
| 3x | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | = | > | ? |
| 4x | @ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O |
| 5x | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ | _ |
| 6x | ` | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o |
| 7x | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | | | } | ~ | |
| 8x | ─2500 | │2502 | ┌250C | ┐2510 | └2514 | ┘2518 | ├251C | ┤2524 | ┬252C | ┴2534 | ┼253C | ▀2580 | ▄2584 | █2588 | ▌258C | ▐2590 |
| 9x | ░2591 | ▒2592 | ▓2593 | ⌠2320 | ■25A0 | ∙2219 | √221A | ≈2248 | ≤2264 | ≥2265 | NBSP | ⌡2321 | °00B0 | ²00B2 | ·00B7 | ÷00F7 |
| Ax | ═2550 | ║2551 | ╒2552 | ё0451 | ╓2553 | ╔2554 | ╕2555 | ╖2556 | ╗2557 | ╘2558 | ╙2559 | ╚255A | ╛255B | ╜255C | ╝255D | ╞255E |
| Bx | ╟255F | ╠2560 | ╡2561 | Ё0401 | ╢2562 | ╣2563 | ╤2564 | ╥2565 | ╦2566 | ╧2567 | ╨2568 | ╩2569 | ╪256A | ╫256B | ╬256C | ©00A9 |
| Cx | ю044E | а0430 | б0431 | ц0446 | д0434 | е0435 | ф0444 | г0433 | х0445 | и0438 | й0439 | к043A | л043B | м043C | н043D | о043E |
| Dx | п043F | я044F | р0440 | с0441 | т0442 | у0443 | ж0436 | в0432 | ь044C | ы044B | з0437 | ш0448 | э044D | щ0449 | ч0447 | ъ044A |
| Ex | Ю042E | А0410 | Б0411 | Ц0426 | Д0414 | Е0415 | Ф0424 | Г0413 | Х0425 | И0418 | Й0419 | К041A | Л041B | М041C | Н041D | О041E |
| Fx | П041F | Я042F | Р0420 | С0421 | Т0422 | У0423 | Ж0416 | В0412 | Ь042C | Ы042B | З0417 | Ш0428 | Э042D | Щ0429 | Ч0427 | Ъ042A |
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