Mac OS 10.6 and Russian

[George Kalbouss]

Regarding OS 10.6, unless I'm missing something, the easiest way to e-mail
in Cyrillic is to go to the uppermost line on the screen. (the one that starts
with the black apple)   Next to the Date/Time symbol is a flag, probably US.  Press on the flag, and it will give you some options.
Scan down to "Language and Text" and you will find Russian, with both the Russian
and the phonetic keyboards.  Follow the directions to add them as an option to the
"flag."  This will work for e-mail and Safari, but not for general texts.  You can do lots of
other language sets as well, of course.

George Kalbouss
Emer.  (The) Ohio State University


On Aug 23, 2010, at 11:18 PM, Judson Rosengrant wrote:

> Dear Prof. Rifkin,
> 
> You shouldn't have installed anything.  The keyboards and drivers (dozens of
> languages) are already built into OS 10.6.  Русская кириллица, как и другие
> алфавитные варианты, должна получаться без всякой проблемы--как вы
> видите: via MS Entourage, in this case.
> 
> I've chosen the transliterated version of Russian Cyrillic from the 'Open
> Language and Text' pull-down menu (click on the flag), but you can use a
> standard Russian keyboard instead just by selecting the appropriate box in
> the same place. 
> 
> Safari should work for you too, just as it does for me when I wish to type
> a web address in Cyrillic.  Although I do find that it will read the native
> website Cyrillic more reliably if I set up the default encoder as 'Unicode
> (UTF-8)'.  For that, just go to Safari preferences and select 'Appearance'.
> 
> I hope this helps.  If it doesn't, give me a call and I'll walk you through
> it.  But it shouldn't be difficult.  It's really a beautifully designed
> system.  All you have to do is trust it.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> J. Rosengrant   
> 
> 
> Judson Rosengrant, PhD
> PO Box 551 
> Portland, OR 97207
> 
> 503.880.9521 mobile
> jrosengrant at earthlink.net
> 
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