Cyrillic database for Mac

[Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj]

At 8:29 9/2/95, Robert D Greenberg wrote:
>Dear SEELANGers,
>A friend of mine is interested in using a database program for her book
>stock in Russian and for her personal collection. The total of items in
Not Ukrainian?  Chuckle!

>each category would be fewer than two hundred. She has her English titles
>keyed into a database program for Macintosh called Helix. She wants to add
Excellent database.  The OLDEST around for the Mac.  It's been with us since
1984...

>Russian language titles to this or to another database if there is a more
>appropriate alternative for the small number of Russian titles.  Any
>suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated!

Well, get with the program!   You're on the Macintosh!  Not the
Mac-wannabee (Windoze 95).  The Mac runs in Arabic, Greek,
Ukrainian, Chinese, Japanese, and even - Russian!

This means that the entire machine is in that language - including fonts.
All dialogues, error messages, menues - all in that language.  It's been
out for YEARS.  (EG:  If I want to see were Windoze is will be in 10 years
from now, I need but to look at the Macintosh TODAY.)

You can download the Russian version from one of the Apple sites online.
There is also a Helix email list.

Now, as for entering stuff in Helix, this would be no problem except for
one.  Helix, as far as I know, has not been "localized".  This means it is
not in Russian - which would present a problem in the sorting order of
items according to the Russian Cyrillic alphabet (which is, of course,
different from Ukrainian Cyrillic, exempla gratia).


                                        Regards,


                                                        Bohdan