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- From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: Russian/Cyrillic on PCs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.131811.17020@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:18:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.130006.1@evax.gdc.com> moon@evax.gdc.com writes:
- >I am looking for general information about support of the
- >Russian language and Cyrillic characters on IBM-compatible
- >PCs. Not only fonts, but keyboards, software, etc.
-
- There's a package for DOS called DOSGOST, which implements the GOST
- Russian standard. It includes a Cyrilic screen font, and a TSR to
- convert the keyboard to use the standard Russian layout.
-
- The TSR works fine with micro-emacs. Alternatively, you can use
- DEMACS with my russian.el package. I also have filters for converting
- the GOST standard encoding into something TeX will understand, if you
- want to go that route. The DOSGOST package includes hyphenation
- patterns for Russian, so you can use TeX.
-
- [If you prefer Unix, you can still use my russian.el file under GNU
- Emacs to enter Russian, but you'll need a russian screen font. I use
- Linux, and I have patches to let that use DOS codepages, so I can use
- the screen font from DOSGOST.]
-
- -Joel
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