Registration of a Cyrillic Character Set (RFC1489)

Publishing Venue

Internet Society Requests For Comment (RFCs)

Related People

A. Chernov: AUTHOR

Abstract

Though the proposed character set "koi8-r" is not currently an international standard, there is very large user community (including Relcom Net) supporting it. Factually, "koi8-r" is de-facto standard for Unix and global network applications in the former Soviet Union. This is the reason the Society of Unix User Groups (SUUG) believes "koi8-r" should be registered.

Network Working Group A. Chernov

Request for Comments: 1489 RELCOM Development Team

July 1993

Registration of a Cyrillic Character Set

Status of this Memo

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Introduction

Though the proposed character set "koi8-r" is not currently an

international standard, there is very large user community (including

Relcom Net) supporting it. Factually, "koi8-r" is de-facto standard

for Unix and global network applications in the former Soviet Union.

This is the reason the Society of Unix User Groups (SUUG) believes

"koi8-r" should be registered.

MIME character set name: koi8-r

Published specification: This standard is unpublished, but based on

several published standards: GOST 19768-74 (old-koi8), ISO 6937/8

(not registered) and variations: INIS-cyrillic, ISO 5427.

C language coding table from koi8-r to Unicode (ISO 10646) for the

upper half of the code table (the lower half of the table is fully

coinciding with ASCII character set)

unsigned short koi82unicode[128] = {

0x2500,0x2502,0x250c,0x2510,0x2514,0x2518,0x251c,0x2524,

0x252c,0x2534,0x253c,0x2580,0x2584,0x2588,0x258c,0x2590,

0x2591,0x2592,0x2593,0x2320,0x25a0,0x2219,0x221a,0x2248,

0x2264,0x2265,0x00a0,0x2321,0x00b0,0x00b2,0x00b7,0x00f7,

0x2550,0x2551,0x2552,0x0451,0x2553,0x2554,0x2555,0x2556,

0x2557,0x2558,0x2559,0x255a,0x255b,0x255c,0x255d,0x255e,

0x255f,0x2560,0x2561,0x0401,0x2562,0x2563,0x2564,0x2565,

0x2566,0x2567,0x2568,0x2569,0x256a,0x256b,0x256c,0x00a9,

0x044e,0x0430,0x0431,0x0446,0x0434,0x0435,0x0444,0x0433,

0x0445,0x0438,0x0439,0x043a,0x043b,0x043c,0x043d,0x043e,

0x043f,0x044f,0x0440,0x0441,0x0442,0x0443,0x0436,0x0432,

0x044c,0x044b,0x0437,0x0448,0x044d,0x0449,0x0447,0x044a,

0x042e,0x0410,0x0411,0x0426,0x0414,0x0415,0x0424,0x0413,

0x0425,0x0418,0x0419,0x041a,0x041b,0x041c,0x041d,0x041e,

0x041f,0x042f,0x0420,0x0421,0x0422,0x0423,0x0416,0x0412,

0x042c,0x042b,0x0417,0x0428,0x042d,0x0429,0x0427,0x042a

};

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The description of all characters from the upper half of the table

in compliance with ISO 10646 (Unicode)

80 FORMS LIGHT HORIZONTAL

81 FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL

82 FORMS LIGHT DOWN AND RIGHT

83 FORMS LIGHT DOWN AND LEFT

84 FORMS LIGHT UP AND RIGHT

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