Download Cyrillic Fonts onto your Home Computer
We encourage you to "russify" (download Cyrillic fonts) your home computer, which will enable you to view Russian and Eastern European sites in Cyrillic.
Unfortunately, there is no one standard font type, and it is therefore necessary to download more than one. KOI-8 and 1251 are the most common, although some sites use other fonts as well.
Please choose among the following sites which provide font files and directions on how to download them:
Paul Gorodyansky's popular site - http://www.siber.com/sib/russify/ms-windows/netscape.html
"Russify Everything" from Siber Systems - http://www.siber.com/sib/russify/
Directions from the "Friends and Partners" page - http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/cyrillic/cyrillic.htmlopt-tables-unix-english-
Russification of Macintosh - http://www.pitt.edu/~mapst57/rus/russian.html
Ukrainianization of Macintosh - http://www.osc.edu/ukraine_nonpubl/htmls/macukr.html
Russian Fonts Page at the University of Oregon - http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/russian.html
In Netscape, once fonts have been downloaded, font settings are changed through the "Options" pull-down menu. Choose "Options," "General Preferences," and then "Fonts." At this point you must choose both a proportional and a fixed font. It is not uncommon for a single site to use more than one font in a single file, for example, one for text, and another for links. In such cases, a KOI-8 might be chosen for as a proportional font, and a 1251 as a fixed font, or vice versa.
Please note that when using the Cyrillic fonts you will be able to display non-cyrillic characters, however, the display looks a bit odd. For this reason, you may want to change back to the default set of fonts after viewing Cyrillic web pages.
Good luck!
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