KOI-8
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KOI-8 (КОИ-8) is an 8-bit character set standardized in GOST 19768-74. It is an extension of KOI-7 which allows the use of the Latin alphabet along with the Russian alphabet, both the upper and lower case letters; however, the letter Ёё and the uppercase Ъ are missed, the latter to avoid conflicts with the delete character (both are added in most extensions, see KOI8-B). The first 127 code points are identical to ASCII with the exception of the dollar sign $ (code point 24hex) replaced by the universal currency sign ¤. The rows x8_ and x9_ (code points 128–159) might be filled with the additio
Key facts
- Character encoding.name
- KOI-8
- Character encoding.standard
- GOST 19768-74
- Character encoding.classification
- Extended ISO 646, KOI
- Character encoding.encodes
- ISO 646:IRV (lower)KOI-7 N1 (upper)
- Character encoding.extensions
- KOI8-B (KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU, KOI8-T, ISO-IR-111, KOI8-F)
- Character encoding.lang
- Russian (basic support)
- Character encoding.prev
- KOI-7
- Character encoding.next
- ST SEV 358-88 (ISO-IR-153)
- Character encoding.otherrelated
- INIS Cyrillic
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KOI-8 (КОИ-8) is an 8-bit character set standardized in GOST 19768-74. It is an extension of KOI-7 which allows the use of the Latin alphabet along with the Russian alphabet, both the upper and lower case letters; however, the letter Ёё and the uppercase Ъ are missed, the latter to avoid conflicts with the delete character (both are added in most extensions, see KOI8-B). The first 127 code points are identical to ASCII with the exception of the dollar sign $ (code point 24hex) replaced by the universal currency sign ¤. The rows x8_ and x9_ (code points 128–159) might be filled with the additional control characters from EBCDIC (code points 32–63).
This standard has become the base for the later Internet standards such as KOI8-RU.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KOI-8” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.