Cyrillic alphabets in Terminal-BASIC output

My friend Dylan Brophy inspired me to investigate the ability to output the cyrillic text using different output devices, supported by Terminal-BASIC.

1. Using symbols others then capital latin in identifiers not possible and unnecessary.

2. USART output.

The job is done by the terminal or (terminal emulator) as long as you use a 1-byte cyrillic encoding (CP-866, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, Windows-1251 ...);

3. Output using TVoutEx, UTFT libraries and devices such as NGT20.

The character set either raster or vector should be extended. The memory resources in this case is main restriction. I think the encodings, which were mentioned above, are not suitable for this case because they define full cyrillic letters set for only 1-2 language and doubles the letters with same look as latin ones. There was interesting encoding Код УПП (punch card device code) which was used on БЭСМ-6 mainframes, defines single latin-cyrillic charset. But it has only capital letters and was incompatible with ASCII.

So I decided to define the encoding, containing all cyrillic symbols without doubling the same-looking latin.

I gather cyrillic letters from 8 alphabets (6 modern and 2 dead). The second part of ASCII will be formed from symbols, differs from latin, with the order ascending by the "points" of this letter in the following rating. This will allow to reduce the number of supported symbols, cutting the tail of the table.

	Symbol	Early Cyrillic	Modern russian	Russian before 1917	Belorussian	Ukrainian	Serbian	Bulgarian	Macedonian	All
1	А	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
2	Б	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
3	В	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
4	Г	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
5	Ѓ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
6	Ґ	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
7	Д	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
8	Ђ	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
9	Е	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	7
10	Ё	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
11	Є	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
12	Ж	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
13	З	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
14	И	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	7
15	Ї	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
16	Й	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	5
17	К	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
18	Ќ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
19	Л	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
20	Љ	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
21	М	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
22	Н	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
23	Њ	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
24	О	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
25	П	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
26	Р	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
27	С	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
28	Т	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
29	Ћ	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
30	У	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
31	Ў	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
32	Ф	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
33	Х	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
34	Ц	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
35	Ч	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
36	Џ	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
37	Ш	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
38	Щ	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	5
39	Ъ	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	4
40	Ы	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	4
41	Ь	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	6
42	Ѣ	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
43	Э	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	4
44	Ю	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	5
45	Я	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	5
46	I	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	4
47	J	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
48	S	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2

After addition of the Macedonian alphabet encoding variant looks like this:

dec	hex	ASCII	КОЭ-13 (CUE-13 Cyrillic United Economical)
0	0	NUL
1	1	SOH
2	2	STX
3	3	ETX
4	4	EOT
5	5	ENQ
6	6	ACK
7	7	BEL
8	8	BS
9	9	TAB
10	A	LF
11	B	VT
12	C	FF
13	D	CR
14	E	SO
15	F	SI
16	10	DLE
17	11	DC1
18	12	DC2
19	13	DC3
20	14	DC4
21	15	NAK
22	16	SYN
23	17	ETB
24	18	CAN
25	19	EN
26	1A	SUB
27	1B	ESC
28	1C	FS
29	1D	GS
30	1E	RS
31	1F	US
32	20	SPACE
33	21	!
34	22	"
35	23	#
36	24	$
37	25
38	26	&
39	27	'
40	28	(
41	29	)
42	2A	*
43	2B	+
44	2C	,
45	2D	-
46	2E	.
47	2F	/
48	30	0
49	31	1
50	32	2
51	33	3
52	34	4
53	35	5
54	36	6
55	37	7
56	38	8
57	39	9
58	3A	:
59	3B	;
60	3C	<
61	3D	=
62	3E	>
63	3F	?
64	40	@
65	41	A
66	42	B
67	43	C
68	44	D
69	45	E
70	46	F
71	47	G
72	48	H
73	49	I
74	4A	J
75	4B	K
76	4C	L
77	4D	M
78	4E	N
79	4F	O
80	50	P
81	51	Q
82	52	R
83	53	S
84	54	T
85	55	U
86	56	V
87	57	W
88	58	X
89	59	Y
90	5A	Z
91	5B	[
92	5C	\
93	5D	]
94	5E	^
95	5F	_
96	60	`
97	61	a
98	62	b
99	63	c
100	64	d
101	65	e
102	66	f
103	67	g
104	68	h
105	69	i
106	6A	j
107	6B	k
108	6C	l
109	6D	m
110	6E	n
111	6F	o
112	70	p
113	71	q
114	72	r
115	73	s
116	74	t
117	75	u
118	76	v
119	77	w
120	78	x
121	79	y
122	7A	z
123	7B	{
124	7C	\|
125	7D	}
126	7E	~
127	7F	DEL
128	80	Ç	Б
129	81	ű	Г
130	82	é	Д
131	83	â	Ж
132	84	ä	З
133	85	à	Л
134	86	å	П
135	87		У
136	88		Ф
137	89		Ц
138	8A	è	Ч
139	8B	ї	Ш
140	8C	î	И
141	8D	ì	Ь
142	8E		Й
143	8F		Щ
144	90		Ю
145	91		Я
146	92		Ъ
147	93		Ы
148	94		Э
149	95		Є
150	96		Ё
151	97		Ї
152	98		Љ
153	99		Њ
154	9A		Џ
155	9B		Ѣ
156	9C		Ґ
157	9D		Ѓ
158	9E		Ђ
159	9F		Ќ
160	A0		Ћ
161	A1		Ў
162	A2		б
163	A3		в
164	A4		г
165	A5		д
166	A6		ж
167	A7		з
168	A8		л
169	A9		п
170	AA		т
171	AB		ф
172	AC		ц
173	AD		ч
174	AE		ш
175	AF		и
176	B0		ь
177	B1		й
178	B2		щ
179	B3		ю
180	B4		я
181	B5		ъ
182	B6		ы
183	B7		э
184	B8		є
185	B9		ё
186	BA		ї
187	BB		љ
188	BC		њ
189	BD		џ
190	BE		ѣ
191	BF		ґ
192	C0		ѓ
193	C1		ђ
194	C2		ќ
195	C3		ћ
196	C4		ў

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