ISO 8859-5

ISO 8859-5 is an ISO standard Character set for Cyrillic but has never really caught on in practice. It is not nearly as popular as Windows-1251 which covers the same alphabet but also adds some extra characters.

History

The Eastern Europe/Western Asia developed writing in the 9th century. Originally the alphabet, called Glagolitic, was developed by Christian Monks who were trying to introduce Christianity to the Macedonia region. They translated the Bible using this alphabet. It was derived from the Greek alphabet with new symbols added for unique sounds of the Macedonia languages. Several years later the Bulgarians developed their own version which became the Cyrillic alphabet. It used many of the earlier symbols and was adopted by most countries in the region including Russia. Both alphabets were in use for several centuries but Cyrillic was eventually adopted in the 19th century and continues today.

It is currently used exclusively or as one of several alphabets for more than 50 languages, notably Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Montenegrin (spoken in Montenegro; also called Serbian), Russian, Serbian, Tajik (a dialect of Persian), Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek. It consists of 32 characters.

Alphabet

Cyrillic

• upper case: А Б В Г Д Е Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
• lower case: а б в г д е ж з и й к л м н о п р с т у ф х ц ч ш щ ъ ы ь э ю я

Eastern Europe

• others: № Ё ё Ђ ђ Ѓ ѓ Є є Ѕ ѕ І і Ї ї Ј ј Љ љ Њ њ Ћ ћ Ќ ќ § Ў ў Џ џ

Uppercase Cyrillic was based on Greek characters with extra characters added where the Greek had no equivalent sound. In addition the Greek characters not needed were removed. Thus you see a similar order for the letters with new letters inserted as needed.

8859-5 Code page layout

The following table shows ISO 9959-5. Each character is shown with its decimal code and its Unicode equivalent.

The full ISO 8859-5 includes ASCII values. The ones shown here are unique to this coding. This code is related to the Windows-1251 coding system but does not include all of the characters in that system nor are the code combinations the same.

UTF-8	Character	Code	Description
U+00A0		160	nbsp;
U+0401	Ё	161	IOcy;
U+0402	Ђ	162	DJcy;
U+0403	Ѓ	163	GJcy;
U+0404	Є	164	Jukcy;
U+0405	Ѕ	165	DScy;
U+0406	І	166	Iukcy;
U+0407	Ї	167	YIcy;
U+0408	Ј	168	Jsercy;
U+0409	Љ	169	LJcy;
U+040A	Њ	170	NJcy;
U+040B	Ћ	171	TSHcy;
U+040C	Ќ	172	KJcy;
U+00AD		173	shy; (soft hyphen)
U+040E	Ў	174	Ubrcy;
U+040F	Џ	175	DZcy;
U+0410	А	176	Acy;
U+0411	Б	177	Bcy;
U+0412	В	178	Vcy;
U+0413	Г	179	Gcy;
U+0414	Д	180	Dcy;
U+0415	Е	181	IEcy;
U+0416	Ж	182	ZHcy;
U+0417	З	183	Zcy;
U+0418	И	184	Icy;
U+0419	Й	185	Jcy;
U+041A	К	186	Kcy;
U+041B	Л	187	Lcy;
U+041C	М	188	Mcy;
U+041D	Н	189	Ncy;
U+041E	О	190	Ocy;
U+041F	П	191	Pcy;
U+0420	Р	192	Rcy;
U+0421	С	193	Scy;
U+0422	Т	194	Tcy;
U+0423	У	195	Ucy;
U+0424	Ф	196	Fcy;
U+0425	Х	197	KHcy;
U+0426	Ц	198	TScy;
U+0427	Ч	199	CHcy;
U+0428	Ш	200	SHcy;
U+0429	Щ	201	SHCHcy;
U+042A	Ъ	202	HARDcy;
U+042B	Ы	203	Ycy;
U+042C	Ь	204	SOFTcy;
U+042D	Э	205	Ecy;
U+042E	Ю	206	YUcy;
U+042F	Я	207	YAcy;
U+0430	а	208	acy;
U+0431	б	209	bcy;
U+0432	в	210	vcy;
U+0433	г	211	gcy;
U+0434	д	212	dcy;
U+0435	е	213	iecy;
U+0436	ж	214	zhcy;
U+0437	з	215	zcy;
U+0438	и	216	icy;
U+0439	й	217	jcy;
U+043A	к	218	kcy;
U+043B	л	219	lcy;
U+04eC	м	220	mcy;
U+043D	н	221	ncy;
U+043E	о	222	ocy;
U+043F	п	223	pcy;
U+0440	р	224	rcy;
U+0441	с	225	scy;
U+0442	т	226	tcy;
U+0443	у	227	ucy;
U+0444	ф	228	fcy;
U+0445	х	229	khcy;
U+0446	ц	230	tscy;
U+0447	ч	231	chcy;
U+0448	ш	232	shcy;
U+0449	щ	233	shchcy;
U+044A	ъ	234	hardcy;
U+044B	ы	235	ycy;
U+044C	ь	236	softcy;
U+044D	э	237	ecy;
U+044E	ю	238	yucy;
U+044F	я	239	yacy;
U+2116	№	240	numero;
U+0451	ё	241	iocy;
U+0452	ђ	242	djcy;
U+0453	ѓ	243	gjcy;
U+0454	є	244	jukcy;
U+0455	ѕ	245	dscy;
U+0456	і	246	iukcy;
U+0457	ї	247	yicy;
U+0458	ј	248	jsercy;
U+0459	љ	249	ljcy;
U+045A	њ	250	njcy;
U+045B	ћ	251	tshcy;
U+045C	ќ	252	kjcy;
U+00A7	§	253	sect;
U+045E	ў	254	ubrcy;
U+045F	џ	255	dzcy;

For more information

• See also: Windows-1251
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script