Source: wikibot/koi8-r
= KOI8-R
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KOI8-R, or Code for Information Interchange 8-bit Russian, is a character encoding system designed to support the Russian language. It is an 8-bit encoding that includes characters necessary for writing Russian using the Cyrillic alphabet, as well as a range of common symbols and punctuation. Developed in the 1970s, KOI8-R is part of the KOI (Kod Obmena Informatsiey) family of encodings.