MacOS 8 + Cyrillic Language Kit

[George Fowler]

Greetings!

Kjetil Raa Hauge, responding to Jerry Ervin, wrote:

>What you describe is a lack of WorldScript-awareness on behalf of the
>application you are using, not a fault of CLK or the system. The only
>application I have that recognizes Cyrillic words when double-clicked, is
>HyperCard.

There must be some other applications sold in Russia which are also
Cyrillic savvy. Actually, I have recently happened upon a Russian
spell-checker for the Mac (UniSpell 2.0.1), a Russian ClarisWorks 2.1.3, a
Russian FileMaker Pro 3, a Russian OCR system (MacTiger 2.0), a
Russian-English dictionary system, and so forth. There is a control panel I
just got called Dialect 3.0.7 which supposedly allows you to turn on/off
System Cyrillic awareness; this sounds useful, if it works as advertised. I
suppose it works in conjunction with the Cyrillic Language Kit. (Not sure
if it is shareware or commercial.) Actually, I have just stumbled upon all
this, and haven't tried out any of it. I will try to do so this weekend and
will report back if there are any good solutions which would be generally
applicable to US Slavists and fellow travelers. If the spell-checker will
deal with Russian and ignore English (assuming Apple Standard Cyrillic
coding), I will be both impressed and elated. To my astonishment, I have
run across a pretty lively Macintosh world in Russia. Someone told me to
check <http://www.macintosh.ru>, but I haven't yet. I have found several
active Hotline servers there, and lots of resources. There are at least two
Russificator systems for OS 8, for example. These seem to be commercial,
but probably not too expensive. I have found about 40 MB of Cyrillic fonts
for the Mac, including knock-offs of numerous standard Mac fonts, such as
Garamond, Palatino, Bodoni, and so on. A lot of this must be trash (I
haven't sorted through it yet), but I am hoping there are some jewels among
the dross.

George Fowler

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