What is KOI-8?
KOI-8 (КОИ-8) is an 8-bit character set standardized in GOST 19768-74. Unicode is preferred to KOI-8 and its variants or other Cyrillic encodings in modern applications, especially on the Internet, making UTF-8 the dominant encoding for web pages.
What encoding to use for Russian?
Russian and other Slavic languages are written in Cyrillic script, which is most often represented by the use of the KOI8-R or the ISO 8859-5 character sets.
What is charset KOI8-R?
KOI8-R (RFC 1489) is an 8-bit character encoding, derived from the KOI-8 encoding by the programmer Andrei Chernov in 1993 and designed to cover Russian, which uses a Cyrillic alphabet. KOI8-R was based on Russian Morse code, which was created from a phonetic version of Latin Morse code.
What is Koi UTF?
KOI (КОИ) is a family of several code pages for the Cyrillic script. These encodings are derived from ASCII on the base of some correspondence between Latin and Cyrillic (nearly phonetical), which was already used in Russian dialect of Morse code and in MTK-2 telegraph code.
Is Cyrillic capitalized?
Lowercase forms Cyrillic uppercase and lowercase letter forms are not as differentiated as in Latin typography.
How do Russian characters encode?
As of Unicode version 14.0 Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks, all in the BMP:
- Cyrillic: U+0400–U+04FF, 256 characters.
- Cyrillic Supplement: U+0500–U+052F, 48 characters.
- Cyrillic Extended-A: U+2DE0–U+2DFF, 32 characters.
- Cyrillic Extended-B: U+A640–U+A69F, 96 characters.
How do you write koi fish in Japanese?
鯉 = こい /koi/ is “koi fish” in Japanese. You can also say 錦鯉 = にしきごい /nishikigoi/, which is “brocaded carp”.