From: Frank da Cruz (fdc@columbia.edu)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 08:45:58 CDT
> > And what is KOI-7?
>
> A true 7-bit encoding for Russian, in which Cyrillic letters (small and
> capital respectively) were encoded in the ranges where ASCII has Latin
> letters (capital and small respectively).
>
The KOI-7 I saw when I was in the USSR in the 1980s was this one:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/koi7.html
This is the character set most commonly used in email between the USSR
and Western Europe and the USA (etc), and also widely used within the USSR,
since a great deal of computing equipment lacked Cyrillic displays and/or
keyboards, and communication links (including e-mail) were predominantly
7-bit (e.g. BITNET for e-mail).
- Frank
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