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Before doing any changes on your system be sure that
you read the
Netscape Communicator 4.xx and Microsoft
Internet Explorer 4.xx Russification
Adding Cyrillic Fonts to Windows 95 and Windows 3.xx
Directions on how to install minimum Cyrillic fonts
necessary to access Russian Web pages in KOI-8 and Windows CP-1251 encoding
Create a directory (C:\RUSFONT), and download file RUS.ZIP(122K)
into this directory. Decompress this file with PK-UNZIP
and you will get four font files. Now you have to install them into your
system.
If you are using Windows 95, do the following
(if you run Windows 3.11, click here):
Start Settings.ControlPanel. Open Fonts folder. Select
File.InstallNewFonts. Select the folder (directory) where you
just downloaded Russian fonts (C:\RUSFONT) and Push SelectAll
and OK buttons. You should be able to see four new fonts in your
Fonts folder: ER-Bookinist KOI-8, ER-Kurier KOI-8, ER Bukinist
1251 and ER Kurier 1251. If you are getting a message saying
that these fonts are already installed, go to the next step (Browser Russification)
and only if something does not work, find the mentioned above fonts
in your Fonts folder, remove them by selecting and hitting Delete
key and install the new version of the fonts as described above.
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ATTANTION WINDOWS 95 USERS !!
You are strongly encoureged to install Cyrilic support for Windows 95,
It would make everything much easear. You can read about it if you follow
one of these links:
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If you are using Windows 3.xx, do the following
(if you run Windows 95, should refer to the section above
and if you are done with it, skip this part):
Open MAIN group. Double-click ControlPanel icon. Double-click
Fonts icon. Push Add button, select the drive and directory
where you have just downloaded Russian fonts (C:\RUSFONT) and
push SelectAll and OK buttons. You should be able to
see four new fonts in your List of Fonts: ER-Bookinist KOI-8,
ER-Kurier KOI-8, ER Bukinist 1251 and ER Kurier 1251. Press
Close button and you are done.
If you are getting a message saying that these fonts are already installed,
go to the next step (Browser Russification) and only if something does
not work, find the fonts in the list and remove them by selecting the font
and pressing Remove button; then install the new version of the
fonts as described above.
Browser Russification
Netscape Navigator Russification (if you are
using Microsoft Internet Explorer, click here
and skip this section)
Select General Preferences in Options menu. Click Fonts
tab.
Select an Encoding from the list, by clicking on the arrow at the right
of the small window with a title
"For the Encoding", where you see 'Latin1' or current encoding. Choose
Cyrillic (KOI8-R) if you are using Netscape 3.xx
or Latin2 (Central European) if you are using Netscape 2.xx.
If you are not sure what version you are using you can always check if
you select About Netscape in Help
menu. Click Choose Font button against
"Use the Proportional Font". Select ER-Bookinist
KOI-8 and click OK button. Your current font should
be changed and
Use the Proportional Font: ER-Bookinist KOI-8
should be displayed. Then click OK button on Preferences
dialog box.
Now you should be able to read most of the pages in KOI-8 encoding.
However, sometimes you will see part of the text displayed in ASCII characters
that look more like "Greek" then Russian. Usually it means that you should
change your fixed font also. Repeat the previous steps for fixed font and
change it to ER-Kurier KOI-8 so that you could see on Preferences
dialog box
Use the Fixed Font: ER-Kurier KOI-8
Described above steps let you read pages in KOI-8 encoding. To view pages
in Windows CP-1251 encoding(WIN) you may repeat the steps above
for Cyrillic encoding if you are using Netscape 3.xx
or Korean (it works!) if you are using Netscape 2.xx.
You should then change proportional font to ER Bukinist 1251 and fixed
font to ER Kurier 1251 as was described above.
To switch between encoding you should select the appropriate one for
the current page from "Options/ Document encoding" menu.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Russification (if you are using Netscape
Navigator, click here and return to the previous
section)
Select Options in View menu. (Do
not select Fonts, it changes only the SIZE of the displayed text!)
Click General tab. Click Font Settings button at the
bottom of the Options Dialog Box. Click the triangle at the right
side of "Proportional Font" combo box. Select ER-Bookinist
KOI-8 and click OK button. Your current font should be changed
and ER-Bookinist KOI-8" should appear in the combo box. Then click
OK button on Fonts dialog box and OK button
on Options dialog box.
Now you should be able to read most of the pages in KOI-8 encoding.
However, sometimes you will see part of the text displayed in ASCII characters
that look more like "Greek" then Russian. Usually it means that you should
change your fixed font also. Repeat the previous steps for Fixed-width
font combo and change the fixed font to ER-Kurier KOI-8 so that you
could see ER-Kurier KOI-8 in the combo box. However, do not change
your fixed font if everything seems to look fine, some special characters
(bullets, symbols, etc.) can be used and you can mess up the picture with
no need.
Described above steps let you read pages in KOI-8 encoding. To view
pages in Windows CP-1251 encoding(WIN) you should change proportional
font to ER Bukinist 1251 and fixed font to ER Kurier 1251 as was described
above.
Netscape Communicator
4.xx Russification
Please, first read about Netscape Navigator
3.x Russification
Microsoft Internet
Explorer 4.xx Russification
Please, first read about Microsoft
Internet Explorer 3.x Russification
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KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS PAGE IS NOT A REFERENCE ON RUSSIAN
INTERNET, BUT A FEW STEPS THAT WOULD LET YOU BROWSE MOST(BUT NOT ALL) OF
THE RUSSIAN PAGES WITH MINIMUM EFFORT. IF YOU NEED MORE ADVANCED OPTIONS,
YOU SHOULD TRY DIFFERENT SOURCES, SUCH AS LINKS BELOW AND MANY OTHERS.
SovInformBureau: Russify
Everything!
Paul's
Page at Compuserve
RUSSIAN LINKS:
A Beginner's Kit ( Anton's Collection of Russian Links)
Teach Russian
to your computer! (Glasnet)
Russification
of Macintosh
Fell free to send your comments to E.V.K.@USA.net
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Or, in
plain language, if you screw your computer it is your fault, not ours .
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