Links to 'Cyrillization' instructions

more 'Cyrillization'

Questions and Answers; links to other Cyrillization instructions

This section has a Q&A part at the beginning and then offers links for subjects that are not discussed on my site.
For example, I wrote only about an MS Windows environment and this section will provide links for Cyrillic (Russian) under Mac or Unix, etc.
I write mostly about Russian and this page provides links to say Ukrainian or Bulgarian keyboard instructions.

Also, even under MS Windows some program may require its own tune-up for Russian and while I mostly explained:

basic things needed for any program - fonts, keyboard tools, etc. (in most cases it covers editors and word processors - usually they don't require any additional tune-up)
Tune-up for WWW browsers - Netscape and MS Internet Explorer

other programs, for instance, a graphical software or some other specialty software (which I personally never saw - one person can not know all programs) can fall into one of the following 2 categories:

A program does not work with Cyrillic (Russian) at all.
Example 1. I don't have AOL software but I know that it is just NOT possible to use Russian in e-mail there.
(but as far as I know, it's possible to use another browser/e-mail program while using AOL as ISP - see links in the table below)
Example 2. At my previous job a corporate e-mail system was a U.S. version of the famous "Lotus cc:Mail" software and there was no way to have Russian text in an e-mail letter there
A program requires a very special, unique tune-up for Russian
(very different from, say, Netscape or MS IE tune-up)
and I personally do not know about such tune-up.

That is, if your Cyrillic-related question is not answered in my own explanations, it means that I just do not know the answer - I placed on my page all information that I have.

In such case I would suggest to do the following:

you should check links to other people's pages listed below
and/or
read or search corresponding Newsgroups (Discussions, Forums) listed below

Here is a summary of what is covered and what is not in my own explanations and instructions:

I explained on my site how to read and write Russian in the Microsoft Windows environment.
This special section offers Russification (Cyrillization) links for other platforms, such as UNIX or Macintosh.
I offer here links for some other subjects that I am not familiar with, for instance, Spell Checkers and Proofing Tools, etc.
As I mentioned above, a program may require its own tune-up. I personally just can not have the information about every single program on the market.
If I know how to tune-up a program for Russian, then it's already written on my pages.
That is, if you did not see a specific information about your program on my site, then it simply means that I never worked with it and do not know how to make it work with Cyrillic.
This special section is about such programs - it contains some links to other people pages related to various programs' Russification.
For example, I never worked with e-mail program Eudora and never used ICQ and IRC. So, below you'll find links related to such programs - either a page that explains one application's tune-up, for example, "Russian in Eudora e-mail program"
or a large site where you can find an instruction for the application you are interested in (an example of such large site listed below is a site "Russify Everything" or a site "Cyrillic for PC, UNIX, and Mac").

Here is the table with links regarding the subjects that I don't know about.
If you go to a page devoted to some program and don't find what you need, you can always ask an author of the page, for instance, by e-mail.
It is better than asking me about it: I don't have the information and the author does.

Instructions and Tools	Author
'Cyrillic for UNIX, PC, and Mac'	"F&P", USA
'Russify Everything'	"SovInformBureau", USA
RuWey - webpage for entering text in Russian	Sergej Benilov
Study in Russia	A.Polunin, Russia
RusLang Learn all about Russia: its history, culture and language. RusLang has an extensive language learning section with lessons, exercises and tests, as well as general information about Russia - its population and geography, subway maps and a photo gallery	RusLang team
'Useful Cyrillic fonts for Adobe Photoshop' Work both in regular Windows aplications and in Photoshop!	D.Zdorov, USA
'Cyrillic Test Pages for all encodings:' Win, Unix, DOS, Mac, Unicode, ...	D.Zdorov, USA
Fast typing - Self-learning method for Russian and English keyboard	M.Portnov, USA
Russian in Forte Agent 1.6 Russian in Forte Agent 1.5	K.Kazarnovsky, Russia T.Kadyshev, Russia
'Russian in Eudora'	LvNet-Teleport, Latvia
'KOI8-R plug-in for Eudora' (in Russian)	E.Surovegin, Russia
Dictionary and Proofing Tools (Spelling, Grammar)	Informatic, Russia
Office 2002/2003 Proofing Tools (Spelling, Grammar)	Microsoft
Office 2000 Proofing Tools (Spelling, Grammar)	Microsoft
I don't use ICQ, but have some links for Cyrillic in ICQ: "ICQ and Russian" and its tune-up sub-page: "Russian font" (in Russian) "Mirabilis: ICQ and Russian"
I don't use IRC, but have some links for Cyrillic in IRC: "Russian in IRC" IRC.PORTAL.RU
As I heard (I don't have AOL), AOL browser does not work fully with Cyrillic. But AOL allows to use another browser instead and I have some links with the instructions: "Netscape & America Online" "Using America Online 3.0 and Netscape together"
'UNICON PRO Cyrillic Converter'	'Russian America, USA
'ConvertCyrillic' (encoding and transliteration conversions)	J.Tonn, USA
Russian text editor Otpad	I.Sidorenkov, Russia
"RussianEditor" - Notepad like editor with added on-screen Russian keyboard	Rendaxa Software, Norway
'Russian in Adobe products' Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign	S.Tokarev, Russia
'Russian in Photoshop" it's chapter 5.3 of "Windows XP FAQ"	"Windows XP FAQ", Russia
'Teaching and Learning Russian'	R.Potapov, UK
Cyrillic VGA fonts for MS DOS	provided by S.Keesan, USA
'Russification of Macintosh'	M.Palchuk, USA
'Macintosh Cyrillic'	AATSEEL, USA
Ukrainian phonetic keyboard	G.Primak, Canada
'Ukrainianization'	BRAMA, USA
'Ukrainian in software, part 1' 'Ukrainian in software, part 2'	V.Jourakhovski
'Bulgarian under Windows' Mirror in the U.S.	G. Atanasov, Bulgaria
Professionally designed CP-1251 fonts Include Chess font - for chess literature and Language & Decorate Styles Fonts for advertisements, booklets publishers, etc.	Dr. L.Madorsky, Australia
"TYPO. Your Guide to Central European Typography"	F.Blazek, Czech Republic
Russian Translation and Localization Services Translation and localization services in all major areas between Russian and English.	USA
Accurate English to Russian Translation UK Accurate English to Russian translation service by native, specialist Russian translators for businesses and individuals. Competitive rates, custom packages, friendly service, based in the UK.	A. Bowman, UK
Spanish Translations	Global

If you did not find an answer for your Cyrillic question neither on my page, nor on the pages listed above, then see below a list of the following Russian-language Newsgroups (Discussion groups, Forums) where you can find an answer or ask your question.

Free News server of Microsoft Corp.:
Russian Newsgroups (Forums) Relcom.* and Fido7.*

Note. Some of the Newsgroups may not be available on the News server of your Internet Service Provider. In such case you can use a free News service provided by Talk.ru, where you can read a Newsgroup (Forum) or post your question there.