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MIK is a Cyrillic codepage to be used with MS-DOS. It is based on the character set used in the Bulgarian Pravetz 16 IBM PC compatible system.
Codepage layout
Only the upper half (128–255) of the table is shown, the lower half (0–127) being plain ASCII.
| .0 | .1 | .2 | .3 | .4 | .5 | .6 | .7 | .8 | .9 | .A | .B | .C | .D | .E | .F | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Implementors of mapping tables to Unicode should note that the MIK Codepage unifies some characters: 0xE1 is both the German sharp S (U+00DF, ß) and the Greek lowercase beta (U+03B2, β); 0xE4 is both the n-ary summation sign (U+2211, ∑) and the Greek uppercase sigma (U+03A3, Σ); 0xE6 is both the micro sign (U+00B5, µ) and the Greek lowercase mu (U+03BC, μ); 0xEA is both the Ohm sign (U+2126, Ω) and the Greek uppercase omega (U+03A9, Ω); and 0xEE is both the element-of sign (U+2208, ∈) and the Greek lowercase epsilon (U+03B5, ε)!
For more information about the origins of the unification have a look at Unicode Consortium's mappings between IBM's codepages and Unicode.
Similar information is given in Markus Kuhn's UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux
For more information about the range of 0xE0 to 0xFF please see the Microsoft Code Page 437 reference chart.
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