KOI-8

This article is about KOI-8, defined by GOST 19768-74. For the misnomered "KOI-8 N1" and "KOI-8 N2" encodings defined by GOST R 34.303-92, see Code page 866 § GOST R 34.303-92.

"GOST 19768" redirects here. For the later 1987 encoding sometimes cited as such, labelled "GOST_19768-74" by the IANA, and also dubbed "KOI-8 V1" by GOST R 34.303-92, see ISO-IR-153.

KOI-8 (КОИ-8) is an 8-bit character set standardized in GOST 19768-74. It is an extension of KOI-7 which allows the use of the Latin alphabet along with the Russian alphabet, both the upper and lower case letters; however, the letter Ёё and the uppercase Ъ are missed, the latter to avoid conflicts with the delete character (both are added in most extensions, see KOI8-B). The first 127 code points are identical to ASCII with the exception of the dollar sign $ (code point 24_hex) replaced by the universal currency sign ¤. The rows x8_ and x9_ (code points 128–159) might be filled with the additional control characters from EBCDIC (code points 32–63).

KOI-8

Language(s)	Russian (basic support)
Standard	GOST 19768-74
Classification	Extended ISO 646, KOI
Extensions	KOI8-B (KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU, KOI8-T, ISO-IR-111, KOI8-F)
Transforms / Encodes	ISO 646:IRV (lower) KOI-7 N1 (upper)
Preceded by	KOI-7
Succeeded by	ST SEV 358-88 (ISO-IR-153)
Other related encoding(s)	INIS Cyrillic

This standard has become the base for the later Internet standards such as KOI8-RU.

Unicode is preferred to KOI-8 and its variants or other Cyrillic encodings in modern applications, especially on the Internet, making UTF-8 the dominant encoding for web pages. (For further discussion of Unicode's complete coverage, of 436 Cyrillic letters/code points, including for Old Cyrillic, and how single-byte character encodings, such as Windows-1251 and KOI8 variants, cannot provide this, see Cyrillic script in Unicode.)

Character set

The following table shows the KOI-8 encoding. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point.

KOI-8

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

0x

NUL

SOH

STX

ETX

EOT

ENQ

ACK

BEL

BS

HT

LF

VT

FF

CR

SO

SI

1x

DLE

DC1

DC2

DC3

DC4

NAK

SYN

ETB

CAN

EM

SUB

ESC

FS

GS

RS

US

2x

SP

!

"

#

¤/$ 00A4

%

&

'

(

)

*

+

,

-

.

/

3x

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

:

;

<

=

>

?

4x

@

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

5x

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

[

\

]

^

_

6x

`

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

7x

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

{

|

}

~

DEL

8x

9x

Ax

Bx

Cx

ю 044E

а 0430

б 0431

ц 0446

д 0434

е 0435

ф 0444

г 0433

х 0445

и 0438

й 0439

к 043A

л 043B

м 043C

н 043D

о 043E

Dx

п 043F

я 044F

р 0440

с 0441

т 0442

у 0443

ж 0436

в 0432

ь 044C

ы 044B

з 0437

ш 0448

э 044D

щ 0449

ч 0447

ъ 044A

Ex

Ю 042E

А 0410

Б 0411

Ц 0426

Д 0414

Е 0415

Ф 0424

Г 0413

Х 0425

И 0418

Й 0419

К 041A

Л 041B

М 041C

Н 041D

О 041E

Fx

П 041F

Я 042F

Р 0420

С 0421

Т 0422

У 0423

Ж 0416

В 0412

Ь 042C

Ы 042B

З 0417

Ш 0428

Э 042D

Щ 0429

Ч 0427

See also

• KOI character encodings