Computer Russification

Web Viewing

For Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher

1.                  At the top of the screen go to View  à Encoding à

2.                  Select a Cyrillic encoding (windows or Koi-8 are the most common but if you are wrong it won’t hurt anything at all just repeat and choose another this time)

3.                  Wait a minute for the page to reload, if it still doesn’t look right change the encoding to another type of Cyrillic encoding.

4.                  If you find that other symbols on other pages look weird like é showing up as й then you will need to put the encoding back to Western European

5.                  To practice you can go to

            check windows encoding  http://www.svoboda.org/

            check koi-8 encoding http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/afarber/koi/gazeti.html

6.  I don’t think there is significant difference between KOI8-R and KOI8-U

Russian Keyboard

YOU MUST HAVE THE WINDOWS DISK

1.  Adding the font component

a.  Go to Start à Settings à Control Panel 

b.  In the control panel window open “Add/Remove” programs.

c.  Open “windows setup” scroll down to mulitlanguage support and double click on it

d.  It should give you options for several language groups, check the appropriate box

e.      Click “OK”

f.        Click “Apply”

g.      Restart your computer

2. Adding the keyboard component

a.       Go to Start à Settings à Control Panel 

b.       In the control panel window open “Keyboard”

c.       Click the “Language” tab

d.       Click “Add” a smaller window will appear with a list of languages.

e.       Select the language you want and hit “OK” (the little window will disappear)

f.         Make sure the box labeled “Enable indicator on taskbar” has a check mark in it.

g.       Note how to switch languages (usually Left Alt + Shift)

h.       Hit “Apply”

i.         Hit “OK”

3. Now you can type with Cyrillic characters using the standard Russian computer   keyboard layout.

Phonetic Keyboard

This information is for the Cyrillic (windows) encoding which is technically CP-1251.

I got this off the webpage http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/

But we have the files in a zip file on the server and on a disk labeled “Phonetic Russian font” So you should not have to go to that Web page in order to Russify your computer.  Some of the instructions I have lifted directly from his page along with the files, but I have also simplified his instructions in some areas.

General Information
Basically what you are doing by adding these files to your computer is telling it to read a different file than it usually would when you are typing in Russian.  The original file is still on the computer and returning to it is very easy to do.   The instructions for returning to it are at the bottom of this section.

The phonetic layout is the same for both KOI8-R and CP-1251 (win) Russian encodings and the same for each version of MS Windows:

Russian letters are located where similar English are.

Most important non-alphabetical symbols (punctuation marks, etc.) are not touched.  You can use "+" and "-" on your Grey Keypad on the right side of the keyboard. Since those keys are used for “ь” and “ъ” respectively

to achieve the above, I have assigned a rarely used Russian letter - - ('yo') to the following keys:
lowercase - Ctrl-Alt-1 and uppercase - Ctrl-Alt-2

Here is the picture of this phonetic keyboard layout (note that “B” is on the “W” key not “V”)

Phonetic Keyboard installation

1.      Follow the above instructions for standard russification with the Russian keyboard

2.      Put our disk labeled Russian phonetic fonts in your computer

3.      go to Start à Programs à windows explorer

              i.      This will start the program windows explorer which will be another large window

            ii.      In this program you can see the contents of a whichever folder is highlighted on the left will be shown on the right.

          iii.      In the left hand box you will see the desktop icon at the top of a long list.  Directly beneath it is a tiny box with either + or -

                           + means that the folder is closed but has other folders in it

                            - means that the folder is opened and you can see the other folders in it.

4.      Open “My Computer” by double clicking on it

5.      Open the C drive by clicking on (C:)

6.      Go to File(in the upper left corner) à New à Folder

              i.      Your curser will skip to the name of the new folder.

            ii.      Name it Rus-Y

7.      Double click on 31/2 Floppy (A:) in the left side of the window

8.      Highlight all the files by clicking once on one of the files then hitting ctr+A

9.      Drag all the files to the folder Rus-y

              i.      To do this:  While all the files are highlighted left click on them once and hold the mouse button down as you move the cursor to the Rus-y folder in the left half of the window (It should be highlighted indicating that the cursor is over it) and release the button.

10. On the left side of the windows explorer window click once on the little + next to the “Windows” folder this will make a bunch more folders appear below it.

11.  You should still be able to see the contents of c:\Rus-y.  If not move the scroll bar(on the left half of the window) up until you can see it and double click, the contents should appear on the right.

12.  Click on the file kbd125y.kbd and hold the mouse button as you move the cursor to left side of the window to the System folder which is a subfolder of Windows (so it is in the long list of folders that appeared when you clicked on the Windows folder).

13. You should still be able to see the contents of c:\Rus-y.  If not move the scroll bar(on the left half of the window) up until you can see it and double click, the contents should appear on the right.

14. In the Rus-Y folder double click on Y1251

15. Click yes in the new window that appears (I know it sounds like you are doing scary stuff but really it’s OK)

16. Click ok in the new window that appears

17. Close all the windows that are open

18. Take out the floppy disk, put it in a safe place, away from magnets

19. Restart your computer

20. Open Word or another word processor

21. In the lower right hand side of your screen there is a little dark blue square with the letters “En” on it.  Click it once which will make a list of languages currently on you computer appear next to it.  Select Russian

22. Start typing.

BACK TO THE RUSSIAN KEYBOARD

1.      Double click on the “My Computer” icon (in the upper left of the computer screen)

2.      Double click on the (C:) icon

3.      Double click on the Rus-y folder icon

4.      Double click on the file Std1251

5.      Click Yes

6.      Click OK

7.      Close everything and restart