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Installing international software (Cyrillic)
Posted by Jared Thomas on November 20th, 2003


Greetings!

I hope that someone from this group can offer me some
advice. I have purchased some Russian-language software
that I would like to use on my Win2000 pro platform, but
the characters are indecipherable. I can view and type
documents in Russian without a problem, but anything that
requires system fonts is...well...impossible. Does anyone
know how to upgrade my system?

Worst case scenario: is it possible to install on one
system an English and a Russian version of the same OS,
choosing between them at start up. At least then I could
_sometimes_ use the software.

Thanks for your help,

Jared
Moscow, RU and Los Angeles, CA

Posted by Paul Gorodyansky on November 23rd, 2003


Hello!

Jared Thomas wrote:
Sure, and it's does not even requires an upgrade.
Unlike say Windows 95/98/ME, your Windows 2000 is capable
of switching system fonts 'on the fly'.
See "Full Russification" section on my site.

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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/