Russification and transliteration.

• Paul Gorodyansky provides his advices: Cyrillic for MS Windows Netscape. USA mirror, and RELCOM-based page in Russia Advices are available in Russian for everybody, even for those users who did not yet russify their browser.
• Sergei Naumov's instructions. He explains why you have to install new fonts to read Russian texts and how to do this. A lot of useful information for all types of computers.
• SovInformBureau This WWW site constructed by Vadim Maslov contains cyrillic fonts and keyboard drivers for different platforms.
• Andrey A. Chernov has a nice collection of materials how to set up different software for KOI8-R encoding, including Windows 95, DOS, Windows, Mac and Unix. In particular, you will find here advices how to russify X-Windows. Contact e-mail: ache@nagual.ru
• Russification of Mac/Apple. This is extremely helpful site for those who are using Macs/Apples rather than PC and other computers. It has detailed advice for configuring a wide variety of programs, and links to both KOI-8 and Apple Cyrillic fonts.
• Are you working in X11 environment ? If you encountered problems when you tried to install cyrillic fonts or tuned your software, the best place to start is KOI-8 Step-By-Step for the X Window System. Copyright ©1996 Marat Boshernitsan. His carefully constructed detailed guide provides all necessary information. Contact e-mail: MBoshernitsan@lbl.gov
• Transliteration. Jan Labanovski presents his complete collection of C programs which allow to convert any known encoding to others.
• Jan Labanovski's RusTeX collection
• I used initially these cyrillic fonts (ZIP archive of fonts in *.bdf format) to view Russian texts in KOI-8 encoding on SUN machine. If you work with SOLARIS (as I do), you may need *.pcf fonts. You can convert *.bdf fonts to *.pcf fonts using program bdftopcf - (font converter from Bitmap Distribution Format to Portable Compiled Format); read first manual pages.
• I used long time ago this keyboard mapping file to type Russian texts in KOI-8 encoding on SUN SPARC running Solaris2.3. Now, I am working with Solaris2.4 and using this keyboard mapping file. I inserted the line xmodmap $HOME/.keymap in my .openwin-init file; to switch to/from Russian keyboard I just press CapsLock key once.
• "Friends and Partners" server provides different Cyrillic fonts and explains how to install them on any computer. If you like, you can listen on-line the pronunciation of the Russian alphabet
• Fonts from Moscow State University .
• Cyrillics from FREEnet: notes and advices by E.Mironov(English version) and fonts from the ftp.free.net
• CONVERT is free, fast, customizable program that can easily port plain text files between all major Cyrillic encoding systems, including, but not limited to KOI-8, KOI-7, Alternative for MS-DOS, CP1251, CYRTTF, TransCyrillic, Cyrillic. Convert 3.0U can also transliterate Cyrillic text to it's English transliteration and back. Contact person: Konstantin Gredeskoul (email: kig@neumann.maths.monash.edu.au )