KOI8-B (Koi8-r) is an 8-bit character encoding designed for representing Cyrillic characters used in the Russian language. It is part of the KOI8 family of encodings, which were developed to accommodate the needs of Russian and other Slavic languages on early computer systems. KOI8-B includes the standard ASCII characters along with additional characters needed for Cyrillic scripts, mapping the letters of the Cyrillic alphabet to specific byte values.
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