KOI8-R for Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista

Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7

ATTENTION: KOI8-R encoding is not native for Microsoft Windows. The right solution should be conversion between KOI8-R and CP1251 or Unicode for all operations with KOI8-R materials.

See The most natural way to teach WinNT speaking KOI8-R.

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Fonts:

Obsoleted Win3.* KOI8-R fonts should work with WinNT too, but not recommended. Proper way will be using Win95/WinNT Unicode fonts.

Keyboard Layout:

keyla (XP/Vista), keyboard layout switcher by Evgeny Arshinov, supports multiply keyboard layouts and hotkeys, tray indicator present (source code included).
RusLat95 (NT/2000/XP/Vista), keyboard switcher by Serge Bykov, supports multiply keyboard layouts and hotkeys.
Capslang (NT/2000/XP/Vista) by Yury Gorbatchev, switch keyboard layout with CapsLock key and Scroll Lock indication.
Language switcher by Mike Matsnev, switch input languages by single key like Menu or CapsLock (source code included). Very small, but doesn't works with a few programs.
KOI8-R Keyboard Layout Driver & Registry Settings (NT) from Dmitry Repkin.
Keyboard Layout Manager Lite (NT/2000/XP) This program allows you to create and modify Microsoft keyboard layout files.

Character Sets Converters:

DC - Universal Russian codepage DeCoder , shareware (automatically recognize Dos,Koi8-R,Win,Mac,Iso,Translit,Volapuk,QP)
InSoft Encoding Changer Family , freeware/donationware from Maks Lebedev (support CP1251, CP866, KOI8-R, ISO 8859-5, MAC-Cyrillic; converter and Encoding Changer Macro for Microsoft Word 97/2000)
TOT-Recoder , freeware (automatically recode a text from ISO/DOS/KOI8-R into windows-1251, restore damaged messages). Text limited to 30Kb.

Applicable Software:

X Window Clients:
- StarNet X-Win32
  Supports KOI8-R, but needs additional keyboard input extra tuning.

Telnet/SSH:

PuTTY: A Free Win32 Telnet/SSH Client freeware (telnet, rlogin, SSH1 & 2, CP866/CP1251/KOI8-R/KOI8-U/ISO-8859-5, supports VT100 pseudographics)
Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.
RECOMMENDED!
Best KOI8-R translation implementation I have seen.

Tera Term Pro freeware (BBS, telnet, zmodem, SSH1 separately available , CP866/CP1251/KOI8-R/ISO-8859-5, supports VT100 pseudographics)

Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required, but translation tables are incorrect.
This patch fix two tables to make them conform RFC1489 better: koi8-r <-> windows-1251 and koi8-r <-> cp866. Put it in the TeraTerm directory and run.

Secure KoalaTerm 1.1 shareware (A VT420/VT320/VT220/VT100 telnet client, SSH1 & 2, internal KOI8-R support, VT100 line drawing pseudographics)
Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.
Secure NetTerm shareware (BBS, telnet, zmodem, ftp server, finger, skey, SSH1 & 2, supports VT100 pseudographics)
Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.
NOTE: CP866<->KOI8-R translation is used for video, so use Terminal (DOS/OEM) font.

F-Secure SSH 5.1 for WinNT4.0/2000/XP Client shareware (a telnet-like client for SSH 1 & 2, VT100 pseudographics)

Uses translation tables for output & keyboard, so some tuning is possible. Download tuned Keymap.map & Output.map and use them instead of default ones.
1st NOTE: Cyrillic paste will not work because only keyboard translation provided by F-Secure SSH.
2nd NOTE: since EightBitControls option can't be enabled via F-Secure SSH config, I switch it off automatically on every Enter pressed.

Browsers:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5-8.0 (this browser supports KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.
  WARNING: You need to set View|Encoding|Auto-Select to work with some sites with charset specified in the <META> tag.
- Mozilla v1.7.x (this browser supports KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.
- Firefox v3.* (this browser supports KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.
- Amaya 8.3 (this browser supports KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.
- Lynx 2.8 for Win32 (this console alphanumeric browser has excellent KOI8-R support)
  Tuning.
- Opera 10.* (this browser supports KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.
HTML Editors:
- Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 (this HTML editor support KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.
  After editing page encoding stored in the <META> tag.
Newsreaders:
- Thunderbird (this freeware MUA/Newsreader supports KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.
- Forte Agent (a good newsreader, supports MIME and KOI8-R)
  Win3.1 KOI8-R fonts and KOI8-R keyboard setup required. Tuning.
- Microsoft Outlook Express (this MUA/Newsreader supports KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required. Tuning.
- News Xpress 2.01 (for Intel) (a freeware newsreader, supports MIME attachments and KOI8-R)
  Win3.1 KOI8-R fonts and KOI8-R keyboard setup required.
  Change all fonts to those with KOI8-R; then, on the File|Options|Compose tab, turn on the Use MIME checkbox, set Encoding type to 8bit and choose KOI8-R in the Character set list. See also NewsXpress FAQ Version 2 .
- WinVN (for Intel) , WinVN (for Dec Alpha) (MIME attachments supported)
  Win3.1 KOI8-R fonts and KOI8-R keyboard setup required. Tuning.
  See also WinVN Newsreader Home Page .
E-Mail:
- The Bat! Mail System (shareware, supports KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required. Tuning.
- Becky! Internet Mail 2.x (shareware, supports KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required. Настройка.
- Thunderbird (this freeware MUA/Newsreader supports KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.
- Microsoft Outlook Express (this MUA/Newsreader supports KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required. Tuning.
- Pegasus (this freeware MUA attempts to support KOI8-R)
  Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required. Tuning.
- Eudora (this free/shareware MUA have no KOI8-R support)
  Win3.1 KOI8-R fonts and KOI8-R keyboard setup required. Tuning.
Text editors:
- EmEditor (this free/shareware editor have full KOI8-R & Unicode support)

Software Tuning:

StarNet X-Win32 tuning:
1. In the Fonts section move all *_unicode fonts upper than their non-unicode versions.
2. In the Command field of the connection call xterm with -lc option.
3. In the file
```
C:\Documents and Settings\{User}\
Local Settings\Application Data\StarNet\X-Win32\XServer.config
```
  change or add the following line:
```
<Xkb model="pc105" enableXKeyboardExtension="true" layout="us,ru" variant="winkeys" />
```
  It fixes two keyboards layout mode. NOTE: XConfig.exe may overwrite this line back to wrong one if you attempt to write its input tab options.
4. Open
```
C:\Program Files\StarNet\X-Win32 {Version}\xkb\symbols\pc\pc
```
  and add the following line to the end of xkb_symbols "pc105" section there:
```
include "group(ctrl_shift_toggle)"
```
  or
```
include "group(alt_shift_toggle)"
```
  and then you may use Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift to change RUS/LAT (there is no keyboard switcher present by default and no XkbOptions or something like in the Xserver.config).