Character Encoding: CP 866

Technical information about character encoding standard CP 866

Technical information about character encoding CP 866 is available below.

Name	General CP 866 Detailed CP 866 (DOS Cyrillic)
Alias	DOS Cyrillic
MIME / IANA	IBM866
Type	1 byte
Classification	Extended ASCII OEM Code Page
Languages	Russian, Bulgarian, and others
Usage	less than 0.01%

The CP-866, also known as DOS Cyrillic, is a character encoding standard developed by IBM. It was mainly designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic script, such as Russian and Bulgarian, among others. It employs an 8-bit encoding scheme, which can represent up to 256 characters. The first 128 characters are identical to those in the ASCII standard.

Code page layout

The table below presents the characters supported by the CP 866 encoding standard, along with their respective codes.

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

0x

␀

␁

␂

␃

␄

␅

␆

␇

␈

␉

␊

␋

␌

␍

␎

␏

1x

␐

␑

␒

␓

␔

␕

␖

␗

␘

␙

␚

␛

␜

␝

␞

␟

2x

␠

!

"

#

$

%

&

'

(

)

*

+

,

-

.

/

3x

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

:

;

<

=

>

?

4x

@

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

5x

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

[

\

]

^

_

6x

`

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

7x

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

{

|

}

~

␡

8x

А

Б

В

Г

Д

Е

Ж

З

И

Й

К

Л

М

Н

О

П

9x

Р

С

Т

У

Ф

Х

Ц

Ч

Ш

Щ

Ъ

Ы

Ь

Э

Ю

Я

Ax

а

б

в

г

д

е

ж

з

и

й

к

л

м

н

о

п

Bx

░

▒

▓

│

┤

╡

╢

╖

╕

╣

║

╗

╝

╜

╛

┐

Cx

└

┴

┬

├

─

┼

╞

╟

╚

╔

╩

╦

╠

═

╬

╧

Dx

╨

╤

╥

╙

╘

╒

╓

╫

╪

┘

┌

█

▄

▌

▐

▀

Ex

р

с

т

у

ф

х

ц

ч

ш

щ

ъ

ы

ь

э

ю

я

Fx

Ё

ё

Є

є

Ї

ї

Ў

ў

°

∙

·

√

№

¤

■

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