Cyrillic on OSX--some good news

[Scott Petersen]

> Since this is a perennial topic on the list, I thought I'd give an
> update:  I've finally been able to get Cyrillic fonts working in OSX,
> with my AATSEEL-phonetic keyboard.  My solution involves two important,
> though not particularly technical, steps:

When I upgraded, the Japanese version came with the computer. I set the
primary language to English, and so all menus etc. come up in English
(the Finder and the programs that Apples includes). Russian fonts and
the keyboard also come with it. So, I gues there is an international
edition of the system.

> FYI, I'm still having weird stuff when I copy and paste Cyrillic text
> from websites, or from the Universal Database of Russian Newspapers.
> The text reads just fine, the font is Latinskij, but when I put my
> cursor in any one of the words, the words switch from being Cyrillic to
> being that all-too-familiar underlining ("_________, _________") and
> the font becomes Times.  I can change the font back to Latinskij and
> read it again, but the words still tend to disappear if I click on
> them.  I've tried changing the default font for the document (in Word),
> but that does nothing.  If anyone has any advice on this, I'd
> appreciate it.

I had a slightly different problem. If I cut and paste from the web
browser to a word processor, the Russian came out in double-byte
characters--impossible to read. If I saved as a text file, several
characters were strange. Я [ya] came out as the symbol for the euro. I
came up with a work around which might help in this situation. I copy
and paste into Composer (the web page making component of Netscape) and
then choose "Save as charset ..." A window pops up offering a choice of
encoding character sets to use. Since I'm using a Mac, I choose
MacCyrillic. Then I can open the file just fine. This might work on
windows as well.

Scott Petersen
Nagoya, Japan

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