KOI8 standards (was - email to and from Russia)

[Max Pyziur]

>At 17:09 1/4/96, Zenon M. Feszczak wrote:
>
>>>KOI8r, KOI-8 ukrainian
>>
>>Does anyone know of a document (hopefully available
>>over the airwaves) detailing the differences between
>>these two encodings?
>>Or is this KOI-8 Ukrainian simply a de facto standard?
>It basically is (due to Russia being a colonial power) based
>on the Russian KOI-8.
>
>>The version of KOI8  worked out for the ER Fonts
>>(hats off to Gavin Helf, wherever he may roam)
>>supports Ukrainian without alienating Russian speakers,
>>or, conversely, supports Russian without alienating
>>Ukrainian speakers, both of which tasks are
>>rare enough accomplishments in the non-virtual world.
>Yup.
>
>>
>>The question is whether this conforms to the above
>>mentioned KOI-8 Ukrainian and/or KOI-8r (which I
>>assume to be what people common refer to as KOI-8).
>
>Here's some technical info from the Ukrainian Library
>in Moscow (great chaps when I visited them!):
>
>From: libukr at glas.apc.org
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.ukrainian
>Date: 20 Mar 95 22:07 GMT+0300
>Subject: Ukrainian letters ASCII codes
>
>Dear friends!
>I'll try to give you the information about
>Ukrainian language ASCII codes, providing
>that you are able to create the driver for your system,
>that is not IBM compatible.


This is nice information Bohdane, but it doesn't apply to Zenon's question.
This is a coding scheme for CP866 rather than one for KOI8.

Max
pyz at panix.com

>
>Ukrainian letter      small CAPITAL     English prononciation analog
>                                        (the sounding letter is made Capital )
>
>        a              160      128                         bUt
>        b              161      129                         But
>        v              162      130                         Very
>        gh             163      131                         Great+Hi
>        g              243      242                         Great
>        d              164      132                         Dear
>        e              165      133                         At
>        ye             245      244                         YEt
>        dz             166      134                         Journal
>        z              167      135                         Zebra
>        y              168      136                         [hard, not soft I]
>        i              247      246                         hEre
>        ii             249      248                         heroIne
>        yi             169      137                         staY
>        k              170      138                         Kill
>        l              171      139                         Last
>        m              172      140                         Meet
>        n              173      141                         Now
>        o              174      142                         cOw
>        p              175      143                         Post
>        r              224      144                         Road
>        s              225      145                         Sport
>        t              226      146                         Time
>        u              227      147                         tOO
>        f              228      148                         Free
>        kh             229      149                         Here
>        c              230      150                         TSar
>        ch             231      151                         CHase
>        sh             232      152                         Sure
>        sch            233      153                         SHake
>        yu             238      158                         Use
>        ya             239      159                         YArd
>        '              236      156                         [myaghkyi znak]
>
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