Hello Greg!
19.10.2009 17:02:44, Greg Goodwin wrote to Moderator of RUSSIAN_TUTOR:

Interesting instructions. Are there tutors on this forum?

No, it's empty for a long time, but I'm still here for some reason :)

What kinda of language (root wise) is Russian based on?

The time scale is like this:

xx B.C. - Indo-European root, the details are unknown.
2-1 centuries B.C. gives us ProtoSlavic language that forms into PreSlavic language in the 1-7th centuries. Further if forms into OldRussian (also known as East-Slavic) until the 14th century. With some changes it goes to the 18th century when church and civil languages start to separate. And a number of noticeable changes also took place after the communists came.


Bye, Anatoliy.
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RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

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* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

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text. v0015.1 [2009-03-01]

I am running two BBS's both of which will have Russian Fidonet area's. (Currently only one does). I am running a Synchronet BBS and a Renegade BBS, both are running on Windows XP SP2 pc's. Do I need to only add Russian to the language section or is there more I need to do for it to display correctly on my BBS?
Thanks,
Lord Blue
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RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

Hello everybody.

01 Mar 12 18:05, Moderator of RUSSIAN_TUTOR wrote to all:

MoRT> ==== text mode ====

MoRT> apt-get install console-cyrillic

MoRT> Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset
MoRT> name>" command.

MoRT> There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though:
MoRT> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181

I think my system doesn't use console-cyrillic anymore.

Also, I am using GoldED with luit ("Locale and ISO 2022 support for Unicode terminals"), and it is pretty easy to run it with different encodings.

Aleksej

--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5--b20110320
* Origin: (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

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* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)

RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write Cyrillic text. v0015.2 [2009-10-20]

This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/1042.42 (all my contributions here may be used under GNU FDL 1.2+, GNU GPL 2+ or CC BY-SA 3.0)
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46, http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky, http://RusWin.net/

The default character encoding in most modern GNU/Linux distributions that work
with the Russian language is UTF-8. Some people still prefer 8-bit encodings like KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage 866 (CP866) almost exclusively as of 2008. It is used in MS-DOS, MS Windows' text mode and OS/2 (eCS).
Microsoft Windows GUI uses CP1251, Windows NT GUI uses UTF-16.
WWW uses UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251.
Some Cyrillic-aware FidoNet news gates use KOI8 for the news side.

== Unix-like ==

These instructions may be common for many GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems.

=== Debian GNU/Linux 3.0-4.0 ===

==== X11 ====

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config in case of XFree86):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb,ru"

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps" EndSection

The needed line is marked with ">". "gb" is the UK English layout. You can have
up to 4 layouts in the list (subsequent ones are ignored).

You will most likely be using a UTF-8 locale like "en_GB.UTF-8", but KOI8-R or KOI8-U would also work for this purpose.

==== text mode ====

apt-get install console-cyrillic

Then you can change the character encoding using "cyr -e <charset name>" command.

There may be an issue with typing in Lenny as of 2008 though: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496181


== DOS, Windows, OS/2 ==

=== DOS and Microsoft Windows text mode ===

You can get a Cyrillic driver / codepage switcher, like one of these:

USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by RShift.

KEYRUS - the most popular one. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs

RK.COM

Microsoft Windows also includes a program called mode.com.

=== Microsoft Windows and Windows NT GUI ===

To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.

For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add -> Russian. For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm

After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.

See also: http://RusWin.net/


=== OS/2 and eComStation ===

Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.

Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using CHCP.

A better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info about it will be added here just when you ask it.


When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.

---
* Origin: Delete Software Limited, Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.42)