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Testing

Microsoft
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MS DOS

OS/2

TeX
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Converters
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Apple
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Russify MS DOS

Fonts and Keyboard Switchers
The best driver I know for MS DOS is rk. Download, unzip, and run it and you get ALT cyrillic fonts and JCUKENG cyrillic keyboard.
Switching: LeftShift-RightShift swaps LAT-RUS keyboard status,
Ctrl-LeftShift-RightShift turns cyrillic fonts OFF and ON.
To get help, type "rk ?".
My favorite is "rk /l:qwerty.rk /g:aclr" that give me cyrillic YaWERTbI keyboard.

r_2_1.zip by Vadim Kurland is another good driver.

USSR is better than RK -- or this is what its author Artem Podstrehny claims.

Converters
  • Convers. Converts to/from ASCII, K8, KOI8, EBCDIC, DKOI, VAX, UCODE, INEUM. Apparently, this is realtively old program with lots of fancy encodings. It also can add/delete CR, ^Z, TABs, null bytes.
  • Convert. Converts to/from CP 1251, KOI-8, KOI-7, ALT. It also can "kovertirovat' russkij tekst v anglijskie bukvy", that is, it converts to/from Volapyuk/Translit.
    To do most conversion you need to run the program twice, once for From, and once for To part of conversions. That makes it not very user friendly.
  • CONV2WP is a shareware conversion program for converting byte oriented word processor files, such as KOI-8, CP 1251,CP 866, LEXICON, etc., to WordPerfect 5.X format.
  • Ngeview. This is Convert package plus Cyrillic file viewer, that converts only to view file.

Cyrillic lovers: Telemate can translate the character flow to/from your terminal from one encoding (say, KOI8-R) to another (say, ALT), so that you can read on-line KOI8-R stuff with the ALT driver that you already have. Telemate is a shareware from White River Software.


Copyright © 1993-2003 by Vadim Maslov.   Updated January 20, 2000.