Hihi,
On Thursday September 21 2000, Andreas Meyer said to Neil Williams:
>> Some Greek characters are available with the standard Amiga ISO
>> 8859-1 keyboard (check Tools/KeyShow to see where), but if you
..
>> packages on Aminet. I can't tell you specifically, other than the
>> general idea of what to do - I've Russified my computer for
>> Cyrillic (ISO 8859-5 / Win1251) and the method is the same for
>> Greek.
AM> Interesting! How did you do that russifying? I�ll search the Aminet for
AM> ISO 8859-1 and 7.
Since it involves Voyager, I'll answer here :)
The three main things you'd need are "Rusifier", a Russian-Cyrillic keymap,
and Cyrillic fonts. These should all be on AmiNet, but I got them via links
on the ATO website.
The Rusifier swaps the keyboard between Latin character input and Cyrillic.
Basically, when switched on it forces Alt for certain keys (i.e. the alphabet
keys but not the number keys), and is toggled on/off by right alt.
The Cyrillic keymaps come in two types - standard Cyrillic/Russian keyboard
layout and a special phonetic layout. With the phonetic layout, the Cyrillic
character which sounds like A is put on A, the one sounding like S goes on S,
and so on. Not a standard layout but much easier if you're a learner or don't
have Cyrillic marked on your keytops (solution: a permenent marker and some
time :)
The fonts are just standard Amiga fonts. The basic English-Latin characters
(ASCII) are the same, but the upper section (128+) has Cyrillic characters
instead of European-Latin.
You can use TrueType as well: with ttf.library you can installed a Unicode
font so that "Arial" is Arial in the Latin characters, "Arial Cyr" is latin &
Cyrillic mixed).
Here's the Voyager bit:
Some Russian websites will work in V even if you have western European fonts
normally installed (in the Font page of the V3 prefs) because they use FONT
FACE to ask specifically for "Arial Cyr". The BBC's Russian link on
news.bbc.co.uk is one example.
Following Matt's Font guide on v3.vapor.com, when you get to the codepage bit
also download the 8859-5.TXT file. In TTF Manager, set this as the codepage
to use when installing a font, but when you do it also change the "New Font
Name" to "<font> Cyr". This way, you can install that TTF font again with a
different codepage and name to use the one TTF file for different languages.
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