Cyrillic Character Set
and Equivalent Unicode and HTML Characters

The Cyrillic script is used for the Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Buryat, Byelorussian, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Khalkha, Kirghiz, Macedonian, Moldavian, Russian, Serbian, Tajik, Turkmen, Ukrainian and Uzbek languages. You can find some real (non-Unicode) Russian Cyrillic text to try at http://www.microsoft.com/RUS/, Ogonyok and Apple Computer, Russia. Here LIB.RU you can check KOI-8 code page (the most popular encoding system in Russia). Also, you can see some Unicode Russian on the What is Unicode? in Russian page and some Unicode Byelorussian on the OHCHR: Belorusian Universal Declaration of Human Rights page.

Characters 1025-1036, 1038-1103, 1105-1116, 1118, 1119, 1168 and 1169 in the Cyrillic range are present in Microsoft's WGL4 character set, and are therefore included in Microsoft's core fonts for Windows (Arial, Courier New and Times New Roman); the fonts are available from http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/win.htm. Users of Internet Explorer 5 for Windows can choose to install the Pan-European update to enable them to view Cyrillic Web pages. Fingertip Software Inc. produces Character Set Converter, which runs under Windows and can convert Unicode Cyrillic to and from Windows, Macintosh and DOS Cyrillic character sets.

Users of Macintosh computers running Mac OS 9 can install an Apple Language Kit for Cyrillic (Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian).

Cyrillic Web pages are supported by Internet Explorer 4 (or higher) and Netscape Navigator 4 (or higher) under Windows 95 (or higher) and Mac OS 9, and by iCab 2 under Mac OS 9.

The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Arial GEO, Arial Narrow, Arial Unicode MS, Ballymun RO, Batang, Bitstream CyberBase, Bitstream CyberBit, Bitstream CyberCJK, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Caslon, Century Gothic, Century Schoolbook, Code2000, Comic Sans MS, Courier MonoThai, Courier New, Courier New GEO, Franklin Gothic Book, Franklin Gothic Demi, Gulim Che, Franklin Gothic Demi Cond, Franklin Gothic Heavy, Franklin Gothic Medium, Franklin Gothic Medium Cond, Garamond, Georgia, Haettenschweiler, Impact, Lucida Console, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Typewriter, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Monospace, Monotype Corsiva, MS Mincho, Palatino Linotype, SImPL, Tahoma, Thryomanes, Times New Roman, Times New Roman GEO, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Trebuchet MS and Verdana; in the Macintosh Unicode fonts Latinskij, PriamojProp and Tahoma; and in the Unix Unicode fonts Caslon and ClearlyU. To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Bjondi's Character Agent or Apple's TrueEdit.

The Unicode Standard (Version 3.0) described Cyrillic set sections as following: Cyrillic extension: 0400 - 040F; 0450 - 045F; Basic Russian alphabet: 0410 - 044F; Historic letters: 0460 - 0481; Historic miscellaneous: 0482 - 0489; Extended Cyrillic: 048C - 04F9.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf.

Character set: 1024 - 1055
Unicode U+0400 - U+041F

Character set: 1056 - 1087
Unicode U+0420 - U+043F

Character set: 1088 - 1119
Unicode U+0440 - U+045F

Character set: 1120 - 1273
Unicode U+0460 - U+04F9

Cyrillic characters as GIF images
Unicode 0400 - 04FF (1024-1274)

Set 1 42 kb

Set 2 42 kb

Official Unicode page:
http://www.unicode.org/