The Home of KOI8-R - Russian Net Character Set.
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What is KOI8-R?
KOI-8 stands for Код Обмена Информацией, 8 бит which means a Code for Information Exchange, 8 bit.
KOI8-R is a KOI-8 successor, a living de facto standard for Internet Mail/News, WWW, and other interactive services in Russian at least all over the ex-SU territory.
To see once is better than to hear a 100 times, look at GIF picture of KOI8-R character set or, if your browser support UTF-8 encoding, look at UTF-8-encoded description of KOI8-R character set. Also here are a Unicode style mapfile for KOI8-R, a KOI8-R description in RFC 1345 format and a KOI8-R description in ISO 9945-2 charmap format.
NOTE: KOI8-R was designed for Russian/English languages and covers only Russian Cyrillic characters, so if you are looking for Ukrainian, Byelorussian, etc. Cyrillic characters, try ISO-IR-111 from ECMA registry or KOI8-U - Ukrainian Character Set (as extension to KOI8-R and ISO-IR-111, see RFC 2319 ) or KOI8-C (for ancient Russian texts) instead, which are identical to KOI8-R in the Russian Cyrillic letters area. See also Rosetta encoding as alternative to Unicode scheme. For some historical overview of Cyrillic charsets see The Cyrillic Charset Soup site.
См. также принципы работы с кодировками / о сетевой кодировке.
The main KOI8-R standard documents and descriptions:
- Registration of a Cyrillic Character Set, KOI8-R standard definition (RFC 1489)
- Unicode style mapfile for KOI8-R
- KOI8-R description in RFC 1345 format
- KOI8-R description in ISO 9945-2 charmap format
- ASSIGNED NUMBERS, KOI8-R registration as an official MIME charset (RFC 1700)
- The latest Registered Charsets List from IANA, KOI8-R is there too
- IBM officially registered KOI8-R character set as Code Page 878
KOI8-R Visualized & on-line browser testing
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How to create and handle Russian HTML documents
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- Как сделать странички в KOI8-R, по-простому.
- Two standard methods described in details.
- How to request KOI8-R documents when several encodings are available.
- How to inform the remote server about your local character set.
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KOI8-R
<FORM>s handling. - Handling KOI8-R resources that are served not via HTTP.
- Tuning Apache HTTPD for KOI8-R support.
- Standards and References
- Мои комментарии
KOI8-R Setup: OS & applications
Select your Operating System and follow instructions:
- Microsoft Windows 3.1
- Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me
- Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7
- MS DOS
- Unix clones
- X Window System
- Macintosh
- OS/2
Miscellaneous Resources
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Browsing decoders:
- My on-line browsing decoder, allows browsing Windows (CP1251) pages with Unix (KOI8-R) browsers. It follows HTTP and HTML standards, and instruct browsers to switch character set automatically, sources are available for free.
- On-line text converters:
- Universal online Cyrillic decoder (tries to guess your code table)
- Automatic Mail Decoder (tries to guess your code table)
- Automatic russian text decoder on Javascript (guess encoding based on probability)
- WIN<->KOI online decoder
- Dictionaries & Translators:
- Multi-language PROMT's Online Translator (online)
- English<->Russian dictionary (online)
- The Comprehensive Russian Computer Dictionary (Russian<->English) (online)
- Yandex.Lingvo (Russian<->English) (online)
- Rambler: Словари (англо-русско-немецкие) (online)
- Other:
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