WEB MEDIA SCHOOL session 46- RUSSIAN
Your Web browser will display Russian text in Russian, if you install the appropriate font and tell the browser to use it. The font files are compressed. Your browser may decompress them automatically, or it may ask you to use a separate program for decompressing the files (e.g. Stuffit Expander for files whose names end in "hqx" or WinZip for files whose names end in "zip"). Files whose names end in "exe" or "sea" are self-extracting archives; to decompress, double-click the file name in the list of files on your computer.
After the fonts are downloaded and decompressed, install them on your computer using the procedure that is recommended for your operating system. Under Mac OS, this usually means dragging the font file to your closed System folder. Under Windows, use Control Panel's Fonts applet. When the font is installed on your computer, choose your browser's Options, Settings, or Preferences command (it may be on the Edit, View, or Options menu) and find the screen where fonts can be selected. For example, in Netscape Navigator 3, look under General Preferences on the Options menu. In Navigator 4, look under Preferences: Appearance on the Edit menu. In Internet Explorer 3, look under Options: Appearance on the View menu. In Explorer 4, look for the Fonts button on the General tab of the Internet Options, off the View menu.
First, you'll need to tell your browser which document encoding you're interested in. Second, you should choose the fonts for that particular encoding. Each encoding can have its own font selection. This allows the browser to display different Web sites in different fonts. Browsers use slightly different names for Cyrillic encoding standards. You may see the names "Cyrillic," "Cyrillic Win," "Cyrillic 1251," "Cyrillic Mac," etc. For these Web pages you shouldn't use any of the Cyrillic options, because our texts include accented vowels, and accented vowels are not part of any existing standard. Use the User Defined encoding by choosing it from the browser's list.
After selecting the User Defined encoding, choose the font that your browser should use. Under Mac OS, choose our font Writer as your Proportional font and as your fixed-width font. Under Windows, our font Leed Serif (Russian) as your Proportional font and Leed Courier (Russian) as your fixed-width font. Return to the browser's main screen and choose the View, Options, or Settings menu again. Select User Defined under Document Encoding. You may have to repeat this last step when you restart your browser or open another Web page. Again, names of this menu option may vary from one browser to the next. Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 calls this option Character Set. It is on the Explorer's View menu. Explorer 4 calls this option Alphabet. It is on the Fonts submenu off the View menu. In Netscape Navigator 3, this option is called Document Encoding. It is on the Options menu. In Navigator 4, it is called Encoding and is found on the View menu.
The procedure described above is necessary, because each font
has a certain set of letters and symbols that are arrranged
according to a certain coding scheme. The schemes for Russian
fonts that are most popular on the Internet are KOI8 (or KOI8-R),
Windows 1251, and Apple/Macintosh Cyrillic. Our Macintosh font
Writer uses Macintosh Cyrillic coding, expanded to include
accented vowels. Our Windows fonts Leed Serif (Russian) and Leed
Courier (Russian) use Windows 1251 coding, expanded to include
accented vowels.
cRussify Mac provides Russian-speaking Mac users
with the easiest way of making their Macintosh "speak" Russian. We
have to use Cyrillic language script in cRussify Mac to provide
support for the applications which require Text Encoding services
(such as MS Office 98, Outlook Express, PowerMail etc.).
With cRussify Mac v2.5 you have three different ways of russifing the Mac OS. (For more information, refer to the "cRussify Mac installation" section.)
With cRussify Mac 2.5, you can install Cyrillic language script as a secondary language script on your localized version of the Mac OS. This way all special characters used in your language will be available and won't be substituted by Cyrillics after the installation of Cyrillic system fonts.For users of localized versions of the Mac OS it is necessary to choose the "Install secondary Cyrillic script" option in the cRussify installer. When this option is chosen, the following Cyrillic system fonts will be installed in your Fonts folder: Charcoal (Rus) Geneva (Rus) Monaco (Rus) You can use these fonts in your documents, and as system fonts when naming files and folders in Russian.
cRussify And MS Office 98 MS Office 98 relies heavily on Text Encoding services when working in a multi-language environment. If you're going to use MS Office, it's necessary to install the Cyrillic language script for the program to work correctly. You can either choose the "Cyrillic support for MS Office 98, Outlook Express, etc.?" or "Install secondary Cyrillic script" option when installing cRussify."Cyrillic support for MS Office 98, Outlook Express, etc...." is recommended for those who plan to use only the Russian and English languages "Install secondary Cyrillic script" option is recommended for users of localized versions of the Mac OS who plan to use MS Office 98 on their System and have Cyrillic support.
cRussify Mac Installation Attention! Installation of cRussify Mac is rather easy, though you have to follow these two simple rules: Rule # 1 you do have to install cRussify Mac over FRESHLY INSTALLED System software.To do this, launch the Mac OS System software installer and choose the "Install New System Folder" option before proceeding with the installation. When a new System Folder is installed on your machine (not just updated), you can move on with cRussify Mac installation.It's just that we have no idea what kind of System patches have already been applied to your current System software that may interfere with our installer, or what kind of font ID conflicts might occur in the process of installation.Please note, that with this version of cRussify Mac we have not included cRussify Remover (deinstaller) because of numerous installation options, so if something happens the only way of getting your system back would be re-installing it. Rule #2 Back up! since cRussifying involves System suitcase patching, it's important to have a spare bootable floppy, Zip cartridge, or of course a Mac(tm)OS System software installation CD to boot from just in case.
(cRussify Mac Installation) Boot from the HD with the System folder you want to cRussify. It would be a good idea to disable all virus protection software before installation. After you launch the cRussify Mac installer, you will be presented with the Installation Wizard which will guide you through installation options and make it easier for your to choose the right selection. Installation Wizard will ask you a few questions regarding what kind of software you plan to use and what kind of System software you have, finally choosing the optimal installation setup for you. After that you'll just have to press the "Install" button and wait until the installation is completed. Then you can press the "Restart" button to reboot your Mac. cRussify Mac v.2.5 offers you the following installation options:
* Easy Install
* Cyrillic support for MS Office 98, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer etc.
* Install secondary Cyrillic script
* Custom Install
Easy Install
This is the non-Cyrillic-script method of russification we used in previous versions of cRussify Mac. It's the right choice for those of you who do not plan to use applications that require Text Encoding services (MS Office 98, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer 4, Claris Works 5.0r2) or who have certain US-only software that will not work with localized versions of the Mac OS.
Cyrillic support for MS Office 98, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer etc.
When this option is selected, Cyrillic script is installed as a primary System language script, allowing you to use applications that require Text Encoding services to work correctly with the Russian language.
Install secondary Cyrillic script
This option is suitable for those who have a localized version of the Mac OS (Danish, German, Swedish etc.) installed. With this installation option, all special characters of your native language will be available, as well as the Russian language fonts. You will be able to use Cyrillics in your documents, eMail, or while browsing websites in Russian.
Custom Install
we do not recommend this option unless you're 100% sure of what you're doing.
After the installation is complete, press the "Restart" button.
Important Information When choosing "Cyrillic support for MS Office 98, Outlook Express, etc.?" or "Install secondary Russian script" install options, all keyboard layouts belonging to the Cyrillic script will be marked with a "?" symbol at the start of their name. Use them when working with Russian texts.
Known Problems
* Adobe Photoshop 5.x, Adobe Illustrator 7.x/8.x
* MS Word 6.0 and Word 98
* UniSpell
* Keyboard Layout switching
* Dialect Control Panel
* US-only software
* Keyboard Layouts
* StuffIt Deluxe 5
Adobe Photoshop 5.x, Adobe Illustrator 7.x/8.x
When Cyrillic script is installed as a primary System language script, certain Cyrillic fonts get their encoding IDs converted, which makes them unavailable for use in the above-mentioned applications. To activate these fonts, drop their aliases, or the alias of the folder they're located in, into the "System Folder: Application Support: Adobe: Fonts" folder of your startup disk.
MS Word 6.0 and Word 98 If you open a MS Office 6.x document containing Cyrillic text in MS Office 98, all Cyrillic text will be converted to "_". This problem can be resolved with our Word Converter utility. This utility is included in the cRussify Mac 2.5 package. You can also download it from the following location: http://www.macintosh.ru/download/crussify/conv/
Keyboard Layouts switching We have received many eMails regarding switching between keyboard layouts with the "Option-Command-Space" shortcut. To activate this shortcut, you need to open the "Keyboard" Control Panel, press the "Options" button, and check the "Use Command-Option-Space to rotate to the next keyboard layout or input method in the active script" checkbox.
Compatibility with US-only software If any of your software is marked as US-only (not International or Russian) you might encounter problems when launching it if the Cyrillic script/Russian behavior script is installed. To solve this problem you would either have to purchase an International version of this particular software package, or remove and then reinstall cRussify Mac with "Easy Install" option selected.
Managing Keyboard Layouts during Mac OS installation a number of different keyboard layouts (Danish, Swedish, German etc.) are installed into your System suitcase. All these layouts become visible after the cRussify Mac installation. If you would like to remove them from the layouts menu to make it look neater and less crowded, you would either have to drag those layouts out of the System suitcase to "Trash", or disable them in the "Keyboard" Control Panel.
StuffIt Deluxe 5 With Cyrillic script is installed ("Cyrillic support for MS Office 98, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer etc." or "Install secondary Secondary script" install selection) you might encounter problems when using Stuffit Deluxe v 5.0 or 5.0.1. To solve this problem you need to download Stuffit Deluxe 5.0.2 update from http://www.aladdinsys.com/. Although this update does not fix a bug in True Finder Integration Control panel included in Stuffit Deluxe package. This is a known bug, please direct your comments to Aladdin Systems, Inc.
If you have any questions or comments please contact us. Let us know if you would like to become a beta-tester for future releases of cRussify. If you have questions, please visit cRussify Mac Quick FAQ page. Visit "Mac in Russia" website.
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