KOI8-U

KOI8-U (RFC 2319) is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover Ukrainian, which uses a Cyrillic alphabet. It is based on KOI8-R, which covers Russian and Bulgarian, but replaces eight box drawing characters with four Ukrainian letters Ґ, Є, І, and Ї in both upper case and lower case.

KOI8-U
Language(s)Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian
Classification8-bit KOI, extended ASCII
ExtendsKOI8-B
Based onKOI8-R
Other related encoding(s)KOI8-RU, KOI8-F

KOI8-RU is closely related, but adds Ў for Belarusian. In both, the letter allocations match those in KOI8-E, except for Ґ which is added to KOI8-F.

In Microsoft Windows, KOI8-U is assigned the code page number 21866. In IBM, KOI8-U is assigned code page/CCSID 1168.[1][2][3]

KOI8 remains much more commonly used than ISO 8859-5, which never really caught on. Another common Cyrillic character encoding is Windows-1251. In the future, both may eventually give way to Unicode.

KOI8 stands for Kod Obmena Informatsiey, 8 bit (Russian: Код Обмена Информацией, 8 бит) which means "Code for Information Exchange, 8 bit".

The KOI8 character sets have the property that the Russian Cyrillic letters are in pseudo-Roman order rather than the natural Cyrillic alphabetical order as in ISO 8859-5. Although this may seem unnatural, it has the useful property that if the eighth bit is stripped, the text can still be read (or at least deciphered) in case-reversed transliteration on an ordinary ASCII terminal. For instance, "Русский Текст" in KOI8-U becomes rUSSKIJ tEKST ("Russian Text") if the 8th bit is stripped.

Character set

The following table shows the KOI8-U encoding.[1][4] Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point.

KOI8-U
_0 _1 _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9 _A _B _C _D _E _F
0_
0
1_
16
2_
32		 SP
0020		 !
0021		 "
0022		 #
0023		 $
0024		 %
0025		 &
0026		 '
0027		 (
0028		 )
0029		 *
002A		 +
002B		 ,
002C		 -
002D		 .
002E		 /
002F
3_
48		 0
0030		 1
0031		 2
0032		 3
0033		 4
0034		 5
0035		 6
0036		 7
0037		 8
0038		 9
0039		 :
003A		 ;
003B		 <
003C		 =
003D		 >
003E		 ?
003F
4_
64		 @
0040		 A
0041		 B
0042		 C
0043		 D
0044		 E
0045		 F
0046		 G
0047		 H
0048		 I
0049		 J
004A		 K
004B		 L
004C		 M
004D		 N
004E		 O
004F
5_
80		 P
0050		 Q
0051		 R
0052		 S
0053		 T
0054		 U
0055		 V
0056		 W
0057		 X
0058		 Y
0059		 Z
005A		 [
005B		 \
005C		 ]
005D		 ^
005E		 _
005F
6_
96		 `
0060		 a
0061		 b
0062		 c
0063		 d
0064		 e
0065		 f
0066		 g
0067		 h
0068		 i
0069		 j
006A		 k
006B		 l
006C		 m
006D		 n
006E		 o
006F
7_
112		 p
0070		 q
0071		 r
0072		 s
0073		 t
0074		 u
0075		 v
0076		 w
0077		 x
0078		 y
0079		 z
007A		 {
007B		 |
007C		 }
007D		 ~
007E
8_
128		 ─
2500		 │
2502		 ┌
250C		 ┐
2510		 └
2514		 ┘
2518		 ├
251C		 ┤
2524		 ┬
252C		 ┴
2534		 ┼
253C		 ▀
2580		 ▄
2584		 █
2588		 ▌
258C		 ▐
2590
9_
144		 ░
2591		 ▒
2592		 ▓
2593		 ⌠
2320		 ■
25A0		 ∙
2219		 √
221A		 ≈
2248		 ≤
2264		 ≥
2265		 NBSP
00A0		 ⌡
2321		 °
00B0		 ²
00B2		 ·
00B7		 ÷
00F7
A_
160		 ═
2550		 ║
2551		 ╒
2552		 ё
0451		 є
0454		 ╔
2554		 і
0456		 ї
0457		 ╗
2557		 ╘
2558		 ╙
2559		 ╚
255A		 ╛
255B		 ґ
0491		 ╝
255D		 ╞
255E
B_
176		 ╟
255F		 ╠
2560		 ╡
2561		 Ё
0401		 Є
0404		 ╣
2563		 І
0406		 Ї
0407		 ╦
2566		 ╧
2567		 ╨
2568		 ╩
2569		 ╪
256A		 Ґ
0490		 ╬
256C		 ©
00A9
C_
192		 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
D_
208		 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
E_
224		 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
F_
240		 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		 Ъ
042A

  Letter   Number   Punctuation   Symbol   Other   Undefined   Differences with KOI8-R (non-Russian letters)


Although RFC 2319 says that character 0x95 should be U+2219 (∙), it may also be U+2022 (•) to match the bullet character in Windows-1251.

Some references have a typo and incorrectly state that character 0xB4 is U+0403, rather than the correct U+0404. This typo is present in Appendix A of RFC 2319 (but the table in the main text of the RFC gives the correct mapping).

See also

References
  1. "SBCS code page information - CPGID: 01168 / Name: Ukrainian KOI8-U". IBM Software: Globalization: Coded character sets and related resources: Code pages by CPGID: Code page identifiers. IBM. C-H 3-3220-050. Archived from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  2. "CCSID information document; CCSID 1168; KOI8-U". IBM. Archived from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  3. International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-1168_P100-2002.ucm, 2002-12-03
  4. Verdy, Philippe; Richter, Helmut (2016-01-04) [2008-10-13]. "KOI8-U.TXT". 2.0. Retrieved 2016-12-09.

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