DESCRIPTION

The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-5 encodes the Cyrillic characters used in many East European languages.

ISO 8859 alphabets

The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:

ISO 8859-1	West European languages (Latin-1)
ISO 8859-2	Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
ISO 8859-3	Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
ISO 8859-4	Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
ISO 8859-5	Latin/Cyrillic
ISO 8859-6	Latin/Arabic
ISO 8859-7	Latin/Greek
ISO 8859-8	Latin/Hebrew
ISO 8859-9	Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
ISO 8859-10	Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
ISO 8859-11	Latin/Thai
ISO 8859-13	Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
ISO 8859-14	Celtic (Latin-8)
ISO 8859-15	West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO 8859-16	Romanian (Latin-10)

ISO 8859-5 characters

The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-5, which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.

Oct	Dec	Hex	Char	Description
240	160	A0		NO-BREAK SPACE
241	161	A1	Ё	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IO
242	162	A2	Ђ	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJE
243	163	A3	Ѓ	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GJE
244	164	A4	Є	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE
245	165	A5	Ѕ	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZE
246	166	A6	І	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
247	167	A7	Ї	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YI
250	168	A8	Ј	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER JE
251	169	A9	Љ	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER LJE
252	170	AA	Њ	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NJE
253	171	AB	Ћ	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TSHE
254	172	AC	Ќ	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KJE
255	173	AD	­	SOFT HYPHEN
256	174	AE	Ў	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT U
257	175	AF	Џ	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZHE
260	176	B0	А	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A
261	177	B1	Б	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BE
262	178	B2	В	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER VE
263	179	B3	Г	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE
264	180	B4	Д	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DE
265	181	B5	Е	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IE
266	182	B6	Ж	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE
267	183	B7	З	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZE
270	184	B8	И	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER I
271	185	B9	Й	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT I
272	186	BA	К	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KA
273	187	BB	Л	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL
274	188	BC	М	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EM
275	189	BD	Н	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN
276	190	BE	О	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER O
277	191	BF	П	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER PE
300	192	C0	Р	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ER
301	193	C1	С	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ES
302	194	C2	Т	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TE
303	195	C3	У	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U
304	196	C4	Ф	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EF
305	197	C5	Х	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HA
306	198	C6	Ц	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TSE
307	199	C7	Ч	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE
310	200	C8	Ш	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA
311	201	C9	Щ	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHCHA
312	202	CA	Ъ	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HARD SIGN
313	203	CB	Ы	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YERU
314	204	CC	Ь	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT SIGN
315	205	CD	Э	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER E
316	206	CE	Ю	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YU
317	207	CF	Я	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA
320	208	D0	а	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A
321	209	D1	б	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BE
322	210	D2	в	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER VE
323	211	D3	г	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE
324	212	D4	д	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE
325	213	D5	е	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE
326	214	D6	ж	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE
327	215	D7	з	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZE
330	216	D8	и	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I
331	217	D9	й	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I
332	218	DA	к	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA
333	219	DB	л	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL
334	220	DC	м	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EM
335	221	DD	н	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN
336	222	DE	о	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O
337	223	DF	п	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PE
340	224	E0	р	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ER
341	225	E1	с	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES
342	226	E2	т	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TE
343	227	E3	у	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U
344	228	E4	ф	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EF
345	229	E5	х	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA
346	230	E6	ц	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSE
347	231	E7	ч	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CHE
350	232	E8	ш	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA
351	233	E9	щ	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHCHA
352	234	EA	ъ	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN
353	235	EB	ы	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YERU
354	236	EC	ь	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN
355	237	ED	э	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER E
356	238	EE	ю	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YU
357	239	EF	я	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YA
360	240	F0	№	NUMERO SIGN
361	241	F1	ё	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IO
362	242	F2	ђ	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJE
363	243	F3	ѓ	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GJE
364	244	F4	є	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE
365	245	F5	ѕ	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZE
366	246	F6	і	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
367	247	F7	ї	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YI
370	248	F8	ј	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER JE
371	249	F9	љ	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER LJE
372	250	FA	њ	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NJE
373	251	FB	ј	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSHE
374	252	FC	ќ	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KJE
375	253	FD	§	SECTION SIGN
376	254	FE	ў	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT U
377	255	FF	џ	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZHE

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