RFC 2319 (rfc2319) - Page 1 of 9
Ukrainian Character Set KOI8-U
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group KOI8-U Working Group
Request for Comments: 2319 April 1998
Category: Informational
Ukrainian Character Set KOI8-U
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document provides information about character encoding KOI8-U
(KOI8 Ukrainian) wich is a de-facto standard in Ukrainian Internet
community. KOI8-U is compatible with KOI8-R (RFC 1489) in all
Russian letters and extends it with four Ukrainian letters which
locations are compliant with ISO-IR-111. The official site of KOI8-U
Working Group is http://www.net.ua.
Introduction
This document provides information about character encoding KOI8-U
(KOI8 Ukrainian) widely used in Ukrainian Internet community for mail
and news exchange as well as for presentation of WWW information
resources in Ukrainian language.
Originally, specification of proposed standard koi8-u was officially
adopted by the conference of Postmasters of Ukrainian Internet
Service Providers in Slavsk in Autumn of 1992 presented by Igor
Sviridov from Kiev and Stas Vorony from Kharkiv. Later in June 1995
this specification was completed with UKRAINIAN GHE WITH UPTURN.
KOI8-U (KOI8 Ukrainian) is a de-facto standard supported in many
operation systems and Internet user applications including encoding
tables, fonts, locale support for many operating systems and
environments.
MIME character set name: koi8-u
KOI8-U Working Group Informational