
Cyrillic Fonts
It is now relatively easy to view sites that employ Cyrillic fonts. Most current browsers (IE6, Firefox 1.5, Opera 8) automatically detect the character encoding used in a web-page. However, if you are running a legacy browser such as Netscape (version 4 or above) simply click on the VIEW tab, then on Character set, and then try selecting one of the Cyrillic character sets -- for instance the Cyrillic Windows-1251 set, which is commonly used. The site may now be readable in Cyrillic, if not try one of the other Cyrillic encodings such as ISO 8859-5 or KOI-8R. Other possible encodings for a Cyrillic web-page are any of the various versions of Unicode such as UTF-8 or UTF-16.
If you use MS Internet Explorer, the character set should be automatically be set.
If you have problems viewing Cyrillic language sites please choose among the following sites to further Russify your browser:
Paul Gorodyansky's site - http://www.siber.com/sib/russify/ms-windows/netscape.html
"Russify Everything"
from Siber Systems - http://www.siber.com/sib/russify/
Russian Fonts Page at the
University of Oregon - http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/russian.html