KOI8-R visualized & on-line browsers testing

On-line tests

1. See the upper half of KOI8-R code table and compare it with your browser's output.
   
   
2. See the special HTML entities in KOI8-R encoding as interpreted by your browser.
   
   
3. Check some CGI Environment variables reflecting headers that your browser passes to HTTPD.
   
   
4. Check KOI8-R <FORM> handling in your browser.
   
   
5. Check how your browser displays <TITLE> tags contents in KOI8-R using this TITLE test page.
   
6. Turn off loading images in your browser and go to this ALT test page to see how your browser displays ALT tag contents in KOI8-R (alternatively, reload the page a couple of times and try to catch ALT text before the image gets loaded). If your browser properly supports charset in the ALT tags, you'll see a Russian text (the same as on the image), and otherwise, some junk letters..
   
7. According to Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language (RFC 2070) , the charset field in the HTTP header must override the charset value specified via a <META> tag. Load this test page with different charsets in its HTTP header and <META> tag and see what happens. If your browser handles it correctly, you'll see a KOI8-R text and not some junk in CP1251 encoding. Don't pay much attention to your screen display, however, but check out Page Info or Document Encoding setting in your browser to see the actual charset.

Browsers comparison table

(*) KOI8-R fonts required:

Win3 or Win95

Win3 KOI8-R fonts

Win95

GDI.EXE KOI8-R patch

X11

X11 KOI8-R fonts

Text mode

EGA/VGA screen fonts or VT100 KOI8-R fonts

If you have tested other browsers, please send me the results to be included here.

Standard Russian keyboard layout