Article: 637 of unix-pc.sources
From: mark@crescent.uucp (Mark Schulman)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.sources
Subject: Let's Write Russian!
Message-ID: <1990Jul22.214554.19810@crescent.uucp>
Date: 22 Jul 90 21:45:54 GMT
Organization: Crescent Computing
Lines: 106


   Here's an unusual one, folks!

   With Glastnost running rampant through the Soviet block, many of
you will no doubt be feeling the need for Russian correspondence.
Toward that end, enclosed is a uuencode'd installable font for the
Cyrillic alphabet -- the alphabet used by Russian.

   To install this font, cut out the uuencode'd text below, and run
it through uudecode.  It will create a file called russian.ft.  To
activate the font, type:  setf russian.ft 0

   The 33 letters of the alphabet, represented as their equivalent ASCII
codes, are:
	
	A a	P p
	F f	C c
	B b	T t
	G g	Y y
	D d	I i
	E e	X x
	S s	` [
	Z z	^ |
	3 ]	W w
	N n	V v
	Q q	~ ~
	K k	{ {
	L l	} }
	M m	U u
	H h	\ &
	O o	R r
	J j	

   I am really interested in rearranging these letters so that the keys
on the Unix PC keyboard correspond correctly to a Russian typewriter.
I have seen a Russian keyboard, and I remember that its layout bears
absolutely no resemblance to an American keyboard.  Has anybody got
the appropriate layout available?

   If anybody thinks they can actually make some use of this, or if
anyone wants the original ASCII source file, drop me a line.

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Mark Schulman			CBIS (Cincinnati Bell Information Systems)
att!auxnj!icepit!mark		Maitland, Florida
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Mark Schulman			CBIS (Cincinnati Bell Information Systems)
att!auxnj!icepit!mark		Maitland, Florida
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