Encoding Information

ALA-LC (Library of Congress) Romanization with Diacritics
Example: Russkīĭ i͡azyk
This encoding implements the Library of Congress's transliteration system [pdf] for vernacular Russian. The diacritical marks are rendered with Unicode. Note that they will usually not show up in a browser, but should appear when the text is copied and pasted to a full-featured word processor.

ALA-LC (Library of Congress) Romanization without Diacritics
Example: Russkii iazyk
This output-only encoding converts Cyrillic to a readable form of Library of Congress transliteration that can be used on any ASCII-compatible system.

CP1251 (Windows)
Example: Ðóññêèé ÿçûê
This encoding is also known as Win1251 and is used in many Microsoft products. The encoding dedicates the upper 128 characters of the ASCII set to Cyrillic, leaving the lower 128 for Latin letters. This allows both alphabets to be mixed within the same font.

ISO 9 Romanization
Example: Russkij âzyk
ISO 9 is an international standard for transliterating Cyrillic which has, in contrast to the Library of Congress system, a one-to-one Latin to Cyrillic character mapping (so a Cyrillic text that is 100 characters long will be 100 characters long when converted to ISO 9). Some ISO 9 diacritics may not show up in a browser, but should appear when pasted to a word processor. More information on ISO 9 is avialable on Wikipedia.

KOI8
Example: òÕÓÓËÉÊ ÑÚÙË
This encoding refers to the KOI8-ru variant of the KOI8 family, which is used on many Russian Web pages. Like CP1251, it dedicates half of the ASCII set to Cyrillic, but with a different letter arrangement. Some fonts are available through AATSEEL.

Phonetic (Modified Library of Congress Transliteration)
Example: Russki\i ^iazyk
This encoding is based on Library of Congress transliteration, but makes entering diacritical marks easy. Typical marks such as ligatures are replaced with characters available on a standard keyboard. Refer to the following chart to type in the Phonetic encoding:

Cyrillic	Uppercase Phonetic	Lowercase Phonetic
А	A	a
Б	B	b
В	V	v
Г	G	g
Д	D	d
Е	E	e
Ё	\E	\e
Ж	ZH	zh
З	Z	Z
И	I	I
Й	\I	\i
К	K	k
Л	L	l
М	M	m
Н	N	n
О	O	o
П	P	p
Р	R	r
С	S	s
Т	T	t
У	Y	y
Ф	F	f
Х	KH	kh
Ц	^TS	^ts
Ч	CH	ch
Ш	SH	sh
Щ	SHCH	shch
Ъ	\."	\"
Ы	Y	y
Ь	\.'	\'
Э	\.E	\.e
Ю	^IU	^iu
Я	^IA	^ia

Unicode
Example: Русский язык
Unicode is the current standard for Cyrillic encoding. It is available by default on all modern operating systems. However, it is sometimes necessary to explicitly indicate to your word processor that you are viewing Unicode text. In Microsoft Word, you must use a font that has the Cyrillic Unicode characters, such as Arial.