WINDOWS 95 and 98
SIMILAR SETTINGS FOR MILLENNIUM AND XP
| SET - UP FOR CYRILLIC / ENGLISH LANGUAGE SUPPORT |
| DOWNLOAD FONTS.ZIP extract the 4 fonts to either a floppy disk or your hard drive. They are
compressed using PKZIP. If you have problems extracting them, you can download each
file AGHLV-N.TTF K8KURIER.TTF
KOI8-R.TTF TIMCYR.TTF |
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button at the bottom left hand corner of desktop SETTINGS CONTROL PANEL ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS WINDOWS SET - UP tab INTERNET TOOLS and OUTLOOK EXPRESS if not already ticked MULTI LANGUAGE SUPPORT, and highlight it DETAILS |
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| Check CYRILLIC and highlight it OK HAVE DISK, and follow the instructions Close all windows down to the Control Panel. |
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| FONTS icon,
open the folder FILE INSTALL NEW FONT Check 'Copy fonts to Fonts folder' Locate the folder which you downloaded the fonts in to SELECT ALL OK Close all windows down to the Control Panel. |
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| KEYBOARD icon, open the folder LANGUAGE tab ADD Scroll down to RUSSIAN, highlight it, make sure that the boxes are checked as shown APPLY At this point you will be asked for your WIN 95 / 98 installation CD or disks. Browse to find the appropriate file, and follow the instructions. Close down all windows, and restart the computer |
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should now have a small icon in bottom right hand corner of your task bar showing
Holding down the left ALT key, then pressing the left SHIFT key will also
change Picture of Cyrillic keyboard layout available In MS Word or similar word processors you will have to change the font to AGHelv or TimesRomanCyr to see and use the Cyrillic fonts. This text is similar to AGHelvetica, this text to Times New Roman to show the fonts. You can ALT/SHIFT keys or the icon to change between typing in English and Russian using these two fonts. CYRILLIC FONTS FOR EMAILS AND INTERNET USING MS INTERNET EXPLORER AND OUTLOOK EXPRESS |
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fonts which were installed earlier (k8kurier.ttf and koiI8-r.ttf are used on the internet. In Internet Explorer select VIEW INTERNET OPTIONS GENERAL LANGUAGES tab ADD LANGUAGE Scroll down and highlight RUSSIAN OK to close down the windows and return to the GENERAL tab.
Now select the FONTS tab Highlight CYRILLIC Change the coding to CYRILLIC (WINDOWS) as in the
picture Close all windows, and restart your computer. You should now be able to type and read Russian text on the internet and in emails. In Outlook Express (Email) it is possible to select change between WIN1251 and KOI8-R coding. Select VIEW, then LANGUAGE and change the Cyrillic encoding. If you cannot read emails in Russian you may have to change the proportional and fixed width fonts, but this is very rare. |
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I believe I have covered all the steps, but no doubt any problems you will let me know. |
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