Re: [WinMac] Multilingual support for Scandinavian languages & Russian in Win98

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Mon, 04 Jan 1999 07:17:30 -0700

Brian Durant wrote:
>
> I am a Mac user switching to Windows 98. I need some advice on how to setup
> multilingual support for Scandinavian languages and Russian using the US
> version of Windows 98. I know about installing keyboards for the other
> languages in Windows, but need to know key combinations for certain
> characters or as an alternative, a shareware program that can produce any
> of the needed characters on command, plus fonts that support these
> languages. Any ideas out there or URLs??? Thanks in advance.

No need for any shareware program...just make sure that the Character Map
accessory program is installed. This is essentially KeyCaps for windows, but
also, clicking on each character will show you the keyboard equivalent to
produce that character. Most of the extended characters are Alt+<number>
combinations. Note: you _have_ to use the numbers on the _keypad_ for this to
work, at least in Win95.

For some reason, Character Map is not on a standard install, at least with
Win95, dunno about Win98. You'll have to go into the Add/Remove software
control panel to add it.

As for fonts supporting these languages, the Scandanavian languages are
covered by the Western ISO encoding in most Windows TrueType fonts, and
Russian fonts are readily available, both as shareware and freeware. All the
major font producers (Adobe, Linotype, Bitstream, etc) make Cyrillic fonts,
and browsing someplace like Winsite (www.winsite.com) will turn up shareware
and freeware ones.

Basically, so long as you only want to _write_ in Cyrillic or Scandanavian
everything should be simple, and work out of the box.

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