Cyrillic Fonts

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Cyrillic Fonts

I'm giving my beige G3 to a friend who corresponds with friends in Russia, and some of his emails come to him in the cyrillic alphabet. I find that I can get them OK on my newer mac running 10.4 but not with the G3 which is running 9.2.2. Can anyone direct me to how to add cyrillic fonts to OS 9.2?

Posted on Oct 21, 2005 8:25 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Oct 21, 2005 8:52 PM in response to Rich Pennington

You need to install the OS 9 Cyrillic language kit. The installer can normally be found in Applications (OS 9)/Apple Extras on the hard drive, or in a similar folder or Software Installers/Language kits on the install disk.

Some more info is here:

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/mlingos9.html#9act

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Answer 2

Oct 22, 2005 5:26 PM in response to Rich Pennington

Thanks Tom,
I don't have an OS 9 disk, and the OS 9.2 disks don't have the language kit on them. I've been able to download some cyrillic fonts that I found on the internet, but I can't get them to work. I've dropped them on the system folder, it tells me that they should be put in the font folder, I click OK, then restart, and still no luck. Any ideas?
Rich

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Answer 3

Tom Gewecke

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Oct 22, 2005 5:40 PM in response to Rich Pennington

Did you look on your hard drive in the folder Applications (OS 9)/Apple Extras to see if there were any language kit installers there? You need more than fonts, that's why there's a "kit."

If you have a 9.2 install disk, try doing a custom install and see if it lets you choose the language kits only.

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Answer 4

Oct 31, 2005 1:48 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks Tom,
I found the language kit in the CD Extras on the OS 9.1 install disk. I installed the kit, as well as the cyrillic fonts that went with it, but still can't seem to get anything to work. I can open Word, and the cyrillic fonts will show in the font menu, and I can use them, but I cant get them to work in Hotmail, which is how the person who's getting this computer communicates with Russian friends. (It works on his Windows machine that he's getting rid of.) I've gone to IE preferences, and chosen russian as one of the languages to show, but no luck. I've read every readme file that's associated with all of this, but with no results. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Rich

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Answer 5

Tom Gewecke

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Oct 31, 2005 7:40 AM in response to Rich Pennington

Rich -- Are you using the Russian keyboard layout, found in the "flag" menu at the top right of the Finder? In Apple > Control Panels > Keyboards, is Cyrillic showing with Russian checked? You need to use this layout and not the US one, along with a CY font.

In IE you may need to set the Encoding in View > Character Set to Cyrillic Windows or Cyrillic KOI8-R.

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Answer 6

Tom Gewecke

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Oct 31, 2005 8:33 AM in response to Rich Pennington

PS I tried to do Cyrillic in IE with Hotmail myself and could not get it to work. However Mozilla did seem to work OK. The version that works with OS 9 is 1.2 and can be downloaded here:

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/old-releases-1.1-1.4rc3.html

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