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Character encoding

KOI8-R is an 8-bit character encoding derived from the KOI-8 encoding, created by the programmer Andrei Chernov in 1993. It was designed to encode Russian letters, using the Russian subset of a Cyrillic script. KOI-8 is an extension of the KOI-7 encoding, which inherited a phonetic correspondence of Russian, as well as Latin letters, from the MTK-2 teletype code. As a result, Russian Cyrillic letters in KOI8-R are in a pseudo-Latin alphabetical order, rather than a Cyrillic one, as in ISO 8859-5. This means that if the 8th bit is stripped, the text remains partially readable in any ASCII-based encoding as a case-reversed transliteration. For example, "Код для обмена и обработки информации" becomes: "kOD DLQ OBMENA I OBRABOTKI INFORMACII". Wikipedia →

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