Frank da Cruz <fdc at columbia dot edu> wrote: > 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).
Very interesting; a sort of hybrid between ASCII and KOI-7. I imagine this version was actually more useful than "real" KOI-7, since the ability to represent both Latin and Cyrillic (uppercase only) was more important than being able to use lowercase. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
