Re: Cyrillic alphabet on RISC OS

In message <4dd676db88Ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ray Dawson <Ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <4dd64242deSW_NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> News <SW_NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> 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

Yes, there is.

> and that it's a character set.

Well, yes, and to display that character set you need an appropriate
font in a suitable encoding.

> On Windows the cyrillic characters are apparently mapped
> above 127 in ASCII, but in the standard Arial etc fonts.

No, not in the standard Windows character set in this part of the
world (Western encoding). The Western encoding is similar to our
character set in that it contains the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) characters
in the top-bit set range (with the notable difference of the range
128-159, which does not have printable characters in ISO and is mapped
to completely different characters in Windows and RISC OS).

There are two popular encodings for Russian, the more commonly used of
which maps the Cyrillic characters in the top-bit range as you
observed, and the commercial Cyrillic fonts for RISC OS conform to
this encoding.

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

I have EFF Times.Cyrillic and another Cyrillic font from a different
party (not free either though this particular font was never on sale
and I have not been able to track down that company). In addition to
Times, EFF have at least two more Cyrillic fonts (most notably, Swiss,
of the Homerton/Helvetica/Arial style and LondonA).

There are bound to be free fonts, probably tons of them, available in
TrueType or PostScript format, which could be or have been converted
to RISC OS format. For instance, I have one from the Decker site
called Cyrillic, available in Roman (serif) and Sans (sans serif).
Unfortunately, the Roman font is incomplete (one character missing)
and both are arranged in an unsuitable way, so the characters would
have to be moved around before it could be used to display text in the
standard encoding.

Martin
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