Author: Paul Gorodyansky

Most popular item of this site:

• Russian Keyboard online (type either by mouse or via regular keyboard):

  http://WinRus.com/keyboard.htm

               

 Introduction. Cyrillic (Russian) in MS Windows
              (Reading and Writing; Encodings)

 Cyrillic Fonts and Encodings under Windows

 Typing Russian on any keyboard: standard and phonetic layout

  On-screen Russian keyboard - typing without Windows keyboard tools

Russian in Browsers/Mail/News under Windows

Unicode-related Cyrillic issues:   MS Word;  Printing;  Copy/Paste

Conversion between Cyrillic encodings

Full Russification of Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista  (how to work with Russian program and/or see Cyrillic in a file name)

  For developers: how to create a Cyrillic HTML file

  For developers: how to create a multilingual HTML file

"More Cyrillization": Q&A, links to other people pages

Internationalization and Localization related sites

 How to contact me

Russia-related Web Sites

The information on this site lets you read and write in Russian in most Windows applications such as Web browsers/e-mail, word processors, etc.
This can be done in a standard, non-Russian (f.e. U.S. English) version of MS Windows.

The information on this site lets you read and write in Russian in most general Windows applications such as Web browsers/e-mail, word processors, etc.
This can be done in a standard, non-Russian (f.e. U.S. English) version of MS Windows.

For subjects that are NOT discussed on my site
(Cyrillic for UNIX or Macintosh computers;
specialty programs that require a special tune-up for Russian, such as say Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Flash, etc.)
please see the section "More Russification. Q&A, Links" that contains corresponding links to other people's pages.

How to read and write in Russian using non-Russian (f.e. U.S. English) version of Windows:

• Reading in Russian
  To read in Russian, you need to have Russian fonts and become familiar with the encoding methods for Cyrillic letters.
  The corresponding instruction (including free Cyrillic fonts for download, if needed) for all versions of Windows (Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT 4.0/ME/98/95/3.1) can be found in the section of this site called
  "Cyrillic fonts and encodings under Windows"

• Writing in Russian
  
  • First, you need to have Russian fonts (see above)

  • Second, you need to activate Russian keyboard tools.
    The corresponding instruction for all versions of Windows - in the section
      Russian Keyboard: standard and phonetic layouts

    If you need to input Russian, but can not activate keyboard tools of the computer - for example, you are in an Internet cafe or in a library - then read the section of this site called
      "On-screen keyboard"

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conversion between Cyrillic encodings

Below you can find two converters:

• CVT32 - works under Windows
• Convert 3.0d - MS DOS program

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Encoding Conversion - Windows program CVT32

Anton Lobastoff (Novosibirsk, Russia) developed two very useful programs for converting text files and Windows Clipboard content from one Cyrillic encoding to another - CP-1251 (Windows), KOI8-R, Alt (DOS-866),... :

• CVT32 - 32-bit program for Windows 95/98/ME/NT
• CCVT, ver. 1.02 - 16-bit program for Windows 3.1, 3.11

Here is the link to Anton's Converter page:

• in Russian CP-1251(win)
• in Russian KOI8-R

You can download my local copies of Anton's programs if the above links don't work:

• CVT32.zip - for Windows 95/98/ME/NT
• CCVT102.zip - for Windows 3.1,3.11

Create a directory (folder) for Anton's program, for example C:\RUSCVT.
Open .ZIP file that you choose for your version of MS Windows in this directory(folder), and then read Anton's instructions(in Russian) - a file with a .TXT extension in KOI8-R or CP-1251(win) encoding.

After doing this, read the following instructions.

How to easily call up the program later:

• Windows 3.1, 3.11 - an icon in Program Manager:
  1. Place your cursor on any icon in a Group where you want to put CCVT ver. 1.02, for instance in Accessories.
  2. Select File / New in the Program Manager menu.
  3. Choose Program Item and press OK.
  4. In the next window, type c:\ruscvt\ccvt.exe on the Command line and press OK.
  5. Now you have an icon for the program, for use whenever you want

• Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista -
  put an icon of CVT32 onto your Desktop :
  1. Click with right mouse button on any empty spot on your Desktop
  2. Select New / ShortCut in the menu
  3. In the next window, type c:\ruscvt\cvt32.exe

  or put this program into your Start/Programs menu:

  1. START / SETTINGS / TASKBAR
  2. Select Start Menu Programs tab
  3. Click Add
  4. In the next window, type c:\ruscvt\cvt32.exe
  5. Click Next and then double-click the menu where you want to place CVT32 - for example, PROGRAMS
  6. In the next window, type CVT32 and then click on Finish.

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Encoding conversion - MS DOS program Convert 3.0d

Convert 3.0 by K. Gredeskoul is a nice software (running in MS DOS) for converting Russian text files from one encoding to another - KOI8-R, CP-1251, Alternative(DOS CP-866), and even Transliteration.

You can download my local copy of this program - conv30d.zip.

I created a new Table for this program that allows me to quickly convert a plain text file (for example, a book downloaded from the Web or a HTML file - my article in Russian) between KOI8-R and CP-1251(Windows) :

KOI-1251.tab

I also created 2 DOS batch files to simplify KOI8-R <--> CP-1251 conversion:

KOI-WIN.bat - from KOI8-R to CP-1251

WIN-KOI8.bat - from CP-1251 to KOI8-R

You may download these 3 files. They are inside KOI-1251.zip. Just click on this underlined file name.

After extracting these 3 files from KOI-1251.zip, you need to copy them into corresponding directories:

• KOI-1251.tab file - to your Convert package's directory.
  Let's assume that it is C:\CONVERT.

• Files KOI-WIN.bat and WIN-KOI8.bat - to your C:\WINDOWS directory.

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How to use Convert with my Table

You need to be in a DOS or in a DOS window under Windows to run the Convert program.

Examples:

1. From CP-1251 To KOI8-R - a new KOI8-R file will be created:

      C:\MY> win-koi8  my-win.txt  my-koi8.txt

2. From KOI8-R To CP-1251 - a new CP-1251 file will be created:

      C:\MY> koi8-win  my1-koi8.txt  my1-win.txt

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