ISO_8859-5(7)

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💖 ISO_8859-5(7) — Miscellaneous Information Manual 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're decoding ISO/IEC 8859-5, aka the character set that lets your terminal speak Cyrillic. she's giving 8-bit extension realness and honestly? iconic. this is a page from section 7 of the Miscellaneous Information Manual, and yes, it's a manual page not a command, so don't go typing it into your shell and wondering why nothing happened 😭

✨ NAME ✨

iso_8859-5 — the ISO/IEC 8859-5 character set, written out in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal, because we contain multitudes 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the ISO/IEC 8859 standard is a whole family of 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (which also goes by the name ISO/IEC 646-IRV, iykyk). and ISO/IEC 8859-5 specifically encodes the Cyrillic characters used in lots of East European languages. she knows her audience 🫶

🎀 ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets 🎀

the whole ISO/IEC 8859 alphabet family, in full, no gatekeeping:

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

(not me noticing there's no ISO/IEC 8859-12... the family said "one of us is not attending" 💀 anyway.)

🦋 ISO/IEC 8859-5 characters 🦋

here's the moment you've all been waiting for. the table below shows every character in ISO/IEC 8859-5 that is printable and not already listed in the ascii(7) manual page. so if you don't see it here, go check ascii(7), bestie ✨

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

🫶 friendly heads up: the A0 NO-BREAK SPACE and the AD SOFT HYPHEN are printable in the sense that they're up here in the table but yeah, they don't show a glyph — they're invisible little icons doing invisible little jobs. don't panic when the Char column looks empty, that's just the assignment 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

if you wanna keep the hyperfixation going, the besties next door:

okay that's the whole page, no notes, you understood the assignment bestie 💖 this was Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08, and it lives at ISO_8859-5(7). periodt 💅✨

📦 where this page comes from

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