On-line tests
- See the upper half of KOI8-R code table and compare it with your browser's output.
- See the special HTML entities in KOI8-R encoding as interpreted by your browser.
- Check some CGI Environment variables reflecting headers that your browser passes to HTTPD.
- Check KOI8-R
<FORM>handling in your browser.
- Check how your browser displays
<TITLE>tags contents in KOI8-R using this TITLE test page. - Turn off loading images in your browser and go to this ALT test page to see how your browser displays
ALTtag contents in KOI8-R (alternatively, reload the page a couple of times and try to catchALTtext before the image gets loaded). If your browser properly supports charset in theALTtags, you'll see a Russian text (the same as on the image), and otherwise, some junk letters.. - According to Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language (RFC 2070) , the
charsetfield in the HTTP header must override thecharsetvalue specified via a<META>tag. 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
| Tests: | Font | Special Chars | FORM Input | Title | ALT= text | ACCEPT_ CHARSET | META charset= | HTTP over META | SCRIPT charset= |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Explorer 9 (Win) (0) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mozilla 1.7.3 (Win) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Mozilla 1.7.3 (X11) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Opera 12 (Win) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Netscape 4.8 (X11) (3*) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (4) | Yes | Broken(2) | Yes | Broken(8) | ? |
| Lynx 2.8.7 (Unix) (5*) | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Arachne 1.48 (DOS) (7*) | Broken(1) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A | ? |
| Firefox 14 (Win) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Safari 5 (Win) (9*) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Chrome 21 (Win) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
(*) 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
<META> tag(1) only the letters and special HTML entities are valid, other characters are wrong
(2) unalterable by options, iso-8859-1 and utf-8 only
(3) additional non-standard tuning required
(4) depends on your Window Manager window titles settings
(5) a text-mode browser, your terminal must have pre-loaded KOI8-R text fonts
(6) only letters area is valid, special characters are wrong
(7) tested with KOI8-R.APM package installed.
(8) buggy
(9) Can't specify multiply languages in the
Accept-Language header, default single language obtained from the OS settings. If you have tested other browsers, please send me the results to be included here.
Standard Russian keyboard layout
