Macintosh Cyrillic Language Kit Installation and User’s Manual Manuel d’installation et d’utilisation
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Contents Chapter 1 Introduction A-1 Chapter 4 Working in Multiple Languages A-11 About this manual A-1 About the Cyrillic Language Kit A-1 Requirements A-2 What are scripts? A-11 Primary and secondary scripts A-12 Choosing a keyboard layout A-12 The Cyrillic Language Kit keyboard layouts A-12 About the Cyrillic transliterated keyboard layouts A-13 The Bulgarian keyboard layout A-13 The Russian keyboard layout A-14 The Ukrainian keyboard layout A-14 The Cyrillic-QWERTY transliterated keyboard layout A-15
Chapter 1 Introduction About this manual This manual explains how to install your Cyrillic Language Kit. You will also learn how to designate which of your application programs should be opened in Russian (or another language using Cyrillic characters), and how to use the new control panels and menus that the language kit adds to your system software. Here is how to use this manual: 1. Decide which parts of the Cyrillic Language Kit you want to install.
m You can enter English and Cyrillic-script languages in a single document, using almost any Cyrillic or non-Cyrillic application program. The Cyrillic Language Kit includes: m System software resources needed for Cyrillic-script languages.
Chapter 2 Setting Up Before you can use the Cyrillic Language Kit you must install the software. You may also want to consider setting your Views control panel to display Cyrillic file and folder names correctly on your screen. Installing the Cyrillic Language Kit from the compact disc If your computer has a CD-ROM drive, you can install the Cyrillic Language Kit from the Macintosh Cyrillic Language Kit CD disc that came with your kit.
Unless you’ve already installed Bulgarian, Russian, or Ukrainian language support, you should install at least one of these choices. You can choose as many of the optional installation items as you want. 6. Click the items you want to install to select them. 1. Quit any open application programs. Click the checkbox of each item you want to install. If you have any virus-detection software, turn it off. v Note: It’s best to start your computer with all extensions turned off before doing the installation.
Displaying Cyrillic filenames correctly 4. Choose Latinski (or any other Cyrillic font you prefer). If you have files and folders with Cyrillic names on your computer, you may find that your system can’t correctly display these Cyrillic names. This can happen if the font your system currently uses for file and folder names is not appropriate for Cyrillic. Choose Latinski.
Installing SimpleText Bulgarian, Russian, or Ukrainian 5. Drag the preferred SimpleText Cyrillic icon to your hard disk. SimpleText is a basic multilingual text-editing program that supports Cyrillic characters, as well as all other available writing systems. This program is not automatically installed with your language kit. If you wish to install it, follow these steps: 1. Do one of the following: If you have a CD-ROM drive, insert the CD Install disc into the CD-ROM drive.
1. Quit any open application programs. If you have any virus-detection software, turn it off. v Note: It’s best to start your computer with all extensions turned off before doing the removal. To do so, hold the Shift key down while your computer is starting. v 2. Insert the Install 1, English disk into your floppy drive (or insert the Macintosh Cyrillic Language Kit CD disc into your CD-ROM drive). You should see the Installer icon in the Install 1, English disk’s window. 7.
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Chapter 3 Choosing a Language for Your Application Program Registering your program for Cyrillic Now that your computer can work in more than one language, it must have a way to determine which programs must be opened with the Cyrillic script. To register a program: The Cyrillic Language Register program Application programs contain a region code that tells your system which language and font should be used for menus, dialog boxes, help balloons, and other items.
3. Select the application program you want to register. Creating a Roman Language Register If you register a program for Cyrillic by accident, you can change it back to your computer’s primary language by following these steps: If the program you want to register is not listed, use this menu to see files in other folders. Click the program you want to register. 4. Click the Register button. Now you can open your program and begin working. v Tip: You can use a short-cut method to register your programs.
Chapter 4 Working in Multiple Languages Now that you have installed the Cyrillic Language Kit, your system supports at least two languages: your primary language and a Cyrillic-script language. When you add another language to your computer, you have new choices about how text should appear on your desktop and in documents. The more languages your computer supports, the more choices you have.
Primary and secondary scripts The script used by your system software—the language in the menus, dialog boxes, and other items on the screen—is your computer’s primary script. If you install a language kit that uses a different script, that script becomes a secondary script for your system. For example, if your system is English, and you install the Cyrillic Language Kit, your system’s primary script is Roman, and its secondary script is Cyrillic.
About the Cyrillic transliterated keyboard layouts The Bulgarian keyboard layout You should use the standard Bulgarian, Russian, or Ukrainian keyboard layout if you are already familiar with this layout. Otherwise, you may want to choose one of the transliterated keyboard layouts. The transliterated keyboard layouts phonetically map the Cyrillic characters to the standard QWERTY (English), AZERTY (French), or QWERTZ (German) keyboard layout.
The Russian keyboard layout The Ukrainian keyboard layout The Russian keyboard lets you type all Cyrillic characters in Normal and Shift positions. The Ukrainian keyboard lets you type all Cyrillic characters in Normal and Shift positions.
The Cyrillic-QWERTY transliterated keyboard layout This keyboard layout displays Cyrillic characters on a QWERTY (English) keyboard in the same position as the corresponding Roman characters with similar pronunciation. It is recommended for people who are not familiar with Cyrillic keyboard layouts. Pressing the Option key gives access to additional characters used in Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, and Macedonian.
The Cyrillique-AZERTY transliterated keyboard layout This keyboard layout displays Cyrillic characters on an AZERTY (French) keyboard in the same position as the corresponding Roman characters with similar pronunciation. It is recommended for people who are not familiar with the Cyrillic keyboard layouts. Pressing the Option key gives access to additional characters used in Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, and Macedonian.
The Kyrillisch-QWERTZ transliterated keyboard layout This keyboard layout displays Cyrillic characters on a QWERTZ (German) keyboard in the same position as the corresponding Roman characters with similar pronunciation. It is recommended for people who are not familiar with the Cyrillic keyboard layouts. Pressing the Option key gives access to additional characters used in Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, and Macedonian.
Transliteration guidelines The following charts list the names of all the letters of the Cyrillic alphabet. The transliteration tells you which keys to press for a specific Cyrillic character. Use these charts in addition to the larger chart on the next page.
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The Keyboard control panel The Text control panel Use the Keyboard control panel to choose which keyboard layout is the default—the one automatically selected in your Keyboards menu—for each script on your system. As explained at the beginning of this chapter, the same script can be used by more than one language. Two languages that share the same script may have different rules for such things as sorting order or capitalization.
The Cyrillic characters encoding table 0. .0 Null 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. A. B. C. D. E. Sp 0 @ P ` p Ä ê † ∞ ¿ – ‡ F. The character encoding table used in the Cyrillic Language Kit is shown on the right. .1 ! 1 A Q a q Å ë ° ± ¡ — · Ò .2 " 2 B R b r Ç í ¢ ≤ ¬ “ ‚ Ú .3 # 3 C S c s É ì £ ≥ √ ” „ Û Column rank represents the first code digit, and row rank represents the second code digit. Rank starts from 0. .
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Chapter 5 Troubleshooting I changed my Views control panel to the Latinski font, but I still see odd characters in my Cyrillic application program. This section contains information about some common problems you may encounter while working on a computer that supports Cyrillic. Your system may not recognize your Cyrillic program as Cyrillic. Follow the instructions in Chapter 3 of this manual to register your program as Cyrillic.
Setting the Views control panel to Latinski is necessary only to read Cyrillic file and folder names. If you don’t set the Views control panel, you will still see Cyrillic correctly displayed within your application programs. You can write and print in Cyrillic; remember to give your files non-Cyrillic names. I changed my Views control panel to the Latinski font, but I still see odd characters in my Application menu. Not all the problems of working in multiple languages on one computer have been solved.
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