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Ukrainian Character Set KOI8-U

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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
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