MS DOS

ATTENTION: KOI8-R encoding is not native for MS DOS. The right solution should be conversion between KOI8-R and CP866 for all operations with KOI8-R materials.

Keyboard & Screen Drivers:

• R, a driver written by V. Kurland, switches between KOI8-R and CP866 by a hot key.

Charset Converters:

• DC - Universal Russian codepage DeCoder , shareware (automatically recognize Dos,Koi8-R,Win,Mac,Iso,Translit,Volapuk,QP)
• trans Character Encoding Converter Generator Package (sources)
  converts between most Russian encodings via UNICODE.
• C source code available too.

Applicable Software:

• Browsers:
  • Lynx2.8 for DOS 386+ (this alphanumeric browser has a good KOI8-R support, 386+ required)
    See also Lynx Tuning.
  • Arachne WWW browser for DOS (this graphics browser has a KOI8-R support as separate self-installed KOI8-R package)
• Misc:
  • UUPC/@, a UUCP transfer protocol host/client & mail subsystem

Software Tuning:

Terminal decode tables:

• CP866 <-> KOI8-R point-to-point decoding table for Telemate
• CP866 <-> KOI8-R point-to-point decoding table for Terminator 2
• CP866 <-> KOI8-R point-to-point decoding table for Telix

Lynx tuning:

Go to 'o'ptions screen and check the following settings:

 display (C)haracter set : DosCyrillic (cp866) preferred document c(H)arset : cp866;q=1.0,koi8-r;q=0.9,windows-1251;q=0.5 

If you can't see a Russian (KOI8-R) WWW page properly with Lynx, this means that the page is broken. As a workaround, in the same options screen press '^A' and try in that order: cp866, koi8-r or windows-1251 (as most common variants).