The 8-bit
ISO character set for the
Cyrillic alphabet. ISO-8859-5 can be used with many Eastern European languages such as
Russian,
Bulgarian,
Serbian, and
Macedonian. It can be used with
Ukrainian as well, though it is not ideal since it lacks the Ukrainian variant of ghe with an upturn. ISO-8859-5 is not heavily used in practice --
KOI8 and
Windows-1251 are much more widespread.
The lower 128 entries are the same as the ASCII and ISO 8859-1 character sets. The top 128 entries contain the Cyrillic characters. The standard 32-letter Cyrillic alphabet starts with the uppercase letters at entry 176 (0xB0) and the lowercase letters at 208 (0xD0). Entries 160 through 175 (0xA0-0xAF) and 240 through 255 (0xF0-0xFF) contain Cyrillic extensions plus some miscellaneous symbols.
The Cyrillic characters are:
hex dec description
0xA0 160 no-break space
0xA1 161 Ё uppercase io
0xA2 162 Ђ uppercase dje
0xA3 163 Ѓ uppercase gje
0xA4 164 Є uppercase Ukrainian ie
0xA5 165 Ѕ uppercase dze
0xA6 166 І uppercase Ukrainian/Belorussian i
0xA7 167 Ї uppercase yi
0xA8 168 Ј uppercase je
0xA9 169 Љ uppercase ije
0xAA 170 Њ uppercase nje
0xAB 171 Ћ uppercase tshe
0xAC 172 Ќ uppercase kje
0xAD 173 soft hyphen
0xAE 174 Ў uppercase short u
0xAF 175 Џ uppercase dzhe
0xB0 176 А uppercase a
0xB1 177 Б uppercase b
0xB2 178 В uppercase ve
0xB3 179 Г uppercase ghe
0xB4 180 Д uppercase de
0xB5 181 Е uppercase ie
0xB6 182 Ж uppercase zhe
0xB7 183 З uppercase ze
0xB8 184 И uppercase i
0xB9 185 Й uppercase short i
0xBA 186 К uppercase ka
0xBB 187 Л uppercase el
0xBC 188 М uppercase em
0xBD 189 Н uppercase en
0xBE 190 О uppercase o
0xBF 191 П uppercase pe
0xC0 192 Р uppercase er
0xC1 193 С uppercase es
0xC2 194 Т uppercase te
0xC3 195 У uppercase u
0xC4 196 Ф uppercase ef
0xC5 197 Х uppercase ha
0xC6 198 Ц uppercase tse
0xC7 199 Ч uppercase che
0xC8 200 Ш uppercase sha
0xC9 201 Щ uppercase shcha
0xCA 202 Ъ uppercase hard sign
0xCB 203 Ы uppercase yeru
0xCC 204 Ь uppercase soft sign
0xCD 205 Э uppercase e
0xCE 206 Ю uppercase yu
0xCF 207 Я uppercase ya
0xD0 208 а lowercase a
0xD1 209 б lowercase b
0xD2 210 в lowercase ve
0xD3 211 г lowercase ghe
0xD4 212 д lowercase de
0xD5 213 е lowercase ie
0xD6 214 ж lowercase zhe
0xD7 215 з lowercase ze
0xD8 216 и lowercase i
0xD9 217 й lowercase short i
0xDA 218 к lowercase ka
0xDB 219 л lowercase el
0xDC 220 м lowercase em
0xDD 221 н lowercase en
0xDE 222 о lowercase o
0xDF 223 п lowercase pe
0xE0 224 р lowercase er
0xE1 225 с lowercase es
0xE2 226 т lowercase te
0xE3 227 у lowercase u
0xE4 228 ф lowercase ef
0xE5 229 х lowercase ha
0xE6 230 ц lowercase tse
0xE7 231 ч lowercase che
0xE8 232 ш lowercase sha
0xE9 233 щ lowercase shcha
0xEA 234 ъ lowercase hard sign
0xEB 235 ы lowercase yeru
0xEC 236 ь lowercase soft sign
0xED 237 э lowercase e
0xEE 238 ю lowercase yu
0xEF 239 я lowercase ya
0xF0 240 № numero sign
0xF1 241 ё lowercase io
0xF2 242 ђ lowercase dje
0xF3 243 ѓ lowercase gje
0xF4 244 є lowercase Ukrainian ie
0xF5 245 ѕ lowercase dze
0xF6 246 і lowercase Ukrainian/Belorussian i
0xF7 247 ї lowercase yi
0xF8 248 ј lowercase je
0xF9 249 љ lowercase ije
0xFA 250 њ lowercase nje
0xFB 251 ћ lowercase tshe
0xFC 252 ќ lowercase kje
0xFD 253 § section sign
0xFE 254 ў lowercase short u
0xFF 255 џ lowercase dzhe