KOI-8

KOI-8 (КОИ-8) is an 8-bit character set standardized in GOST 19768-74.[1][2] 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 24_hex) 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).

KOI-8

Language(s)	Russian (basic support)
Standard	GOST 19768-74
Classification	Extended ISO 646, KOI
Extensions	KOI8-B (KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU, KOI8-T, ISO-IR-111, KOI8-F)
Transforms / Encodes	ISO 646:IRV (lower) KOI-7 N1 (upper)
Preceded by	KOI-7
Succeeded by	ST SEV 358-88 (ISO-IR-153)
Other related encoding(s)	INIS Cyrillic

This standard has become the base for the later Internet standards such as KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU and all the other derivatives.

Character set

The following table shows the KOI-8 encoding. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point.

KOI-8[3]

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_ 0	NUL 0000	SOH 0001	STX 0002	ETX 0003	EOT 0004	ENQ 0005	ACK 0006	BEL 0007	BS 0008	HT 0009	LF 000A	VT 000B	FF 000C	CR 000D	SO 000E	SI 000F
1_ 16	DLE 0010	DC1 0011	DC2 0012	DC3 0013	DC4 0014	NAK 0015	SYN 0016	ETB 0017	CAN 0018	EM 0019	SUB 001A	ESC 001B	FS 001C	GS 001D	RS 001E	US 001F
2_ 32	SP 0020	! 0021	" 0022	# 0023	¤/$[lower-alpha 1] 00A4/0024	% 0025	& 0026	' 0027	( 0028	) 0029	* 002A	+ 002B	, 002C	- 002D	. 002E	/ 002F
3_ 48	0 0030	1 0031	2 0032	3 0033	4 0034	5 0035	6 0036	7 0037	8 0038	9 0039	: 003A	; 003B	< 003C	= 003D	> 003E	? 003F
4_ 64	@ 0040	A 0041	B 0042	C 0043	D 0044	E 0045	F 0046	G 0047	H 0048	I 0049	J 004A	K 004B	L 004C	M 004D	N 004E	O 004F
5_ 80	P 0050	Q 0051	R 0052	S 0053	T 0054	U 0055	V 0056	W 0057	X 0058	Y 0059	Z 005A	[ 005B	\ 005C	] 005D	^ 005E	_ 005F
6_ 96	` 0060	a 0061	b 0062	c 0063	d 0064	e 0065	f 0066	g 0067	h 0068	i 0069	j 006A	k 006B	l 006C	m 006D	n 006E	o 006F
7_ 112	p 0070	q 0071	r 0072	s 0073	t 0074	u 0075	v 0076	w 0077	x 0078	y 0079	z 007A	{ 007B	| 007C	} 007D	~ 007E	DEL 007F
8_ 128
9_ 144
A_ 160
B_ 176
C_ 192	ю 044E	а 0430	б 0431	ц 0446	д 0434	е 0435	ф 0444	г 0433	х 0445	и 0438	й 0439	к 043A	л 043B	м 043C	н 043D	о 043E
D_ 208	п 043F	я 044F	р 0440	с 0441	т 0442	у 0443	ж 0436	в 0432	ь 044C	ы 044B	з 0437	ш 0448	э 044D	щ 0449	ч 0447	ъ 044A
E_ 224	Ю 042E	А 0410	Б 0411	Ц 0426	Д 0414	Е 0415	Ф 0424	Г 0413	Х 0425	И 0418	Й 0419	К 041A	Л 041B	М 041C	Н 041D	О 041E
F_ 240	П 041F	Я 042F	Р 0420	С 0421	Т 0422	У 0423	Ж 0416	В 0412	Ь 042C	Ы 042B	З 0417	Ш 0428	Э 042D	Щ 0429	Ч 0427

  Letter   Number   Punctuation   Symbol   Other   Undefined

See also

• KOI character encodings

Footnotes

1. Originally given as an international currency sign to match the ISO 646 IRV, which has itself since been changed to match ASCII in giving it as a dollar sign. KOI-8 variants and extensions in use tend to match ASCII here, see for example RFC 2319.

References

1. (in Russian) ГОСТ 19768-74 (СТ СЭВ 358-76). Машины вычислительные и система обработки данных. Коды 8-битные для обмена и обработки информации.
2. (in Russian) Маркелова Л. Н. Эксплуатация программоуправляемой вычислительной машины «Искра 226». — М.: Машиностроение, 1987. — С. 41—42.
3. "Locale::RecodeData::KOI_8 - search.cpan.org". search.cpan.org.