> > 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
