Re: Cyrillic alphabet on RISC OS

In article <4dd64242deSW_NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
News <SW_NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <363d44d64d.cferris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> <cferris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In message <4dd6007963Ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Ray Dawson <Ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > >
> > > How can I get the cyrillic alphabet to display on my Risc PC?
> > >
> > > My wife is Russian and we download quite a lot of Russian web pages
> > > and Word documents from the internet.
> > >
> > > The characters on web pages just show up in Oregano as square boxes
> > > and the Word documents as dashes in EasyWriter Professional.
> > >

> > What about asking direct - to 'EasyWriters' maintainer - M Wuerthner?

> > With perhaps a example Russian 'Word' file.

> I think you might need a Cyrillic font -

> http://www.eff.co.uk/A/Lang.htm

I didn't think there was such a thing as a cyrillic font and that it's a
character set. On Windows the cyrillic characters are apparently mapped
above 127 in ASCII, but in the standard Arial etc fonts.

Are they there in RISC OS, and is there a way to enable them?

Cheers,

Ray D

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Ray Dawson
ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
MagRay - the audio & braille specialists
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