Language(s) | Russian, Bulgarian |
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Standard | ST SEV 358-88, GOST R 34.303-92 (see below) |
Classification | Extended ASCII |
Based on | Main code page[1] |
Extensions | ISO-8859-5, IBM-1124, ISO-IR-200, ISO-IR-201 |
Preceded by | KOI8-B[2] |
ISO-IR-153[3] (ST SEV 358-88) is an 8-bit character set that covers the Russian and Bulgarian alphabets. Unlike the KOI encodings, this encoding lists the Cyrillic letters in their correct traditional order. This has become the basis for ISO/IEC 8859-5 and the Cyrillic Unicode block.