HOW TO "RUSSIFY" YOUR COMPUTER

Many Russian women experience troubles while browsing Russian websites on the Internet and trying to type in Russian. Most of us don't have any information regarding how to install Russian fonts and enable  appropriate encoding on our computers. It took me almost a year to complete this simple procedure though I was quite familiar with the Internet. Thanks to Joanna from FL and Lena from TN I was able to put together "step by step" instruction, which, I hope, will help all of you to Russify your own PCs:

TO INSTALL RUSSIAN FONTS ON YOUR PG GO TO:
1. START
2. SETTINGS
3. CONTROL PANEL
4. KEYBOARD
5. LANGUAGE
CLICK "ADD" BUTTON
FROM THE LIST OF LANGUAGES CHOSE "RUSSIAN"
CHOSE HOW DO YOU WANT TO SWITCH LANGUAGE ON YOUR PC FROM THE OPTIONS ON THE SCREEN
PRESS "OK"

If by any reason, you cannot find Russian fonts in your PC, you can find free fonts at: http://freesitex.com/font01.shtml

TO BE ABLE TO READ RUSSIAN FONTS ON THE INTERNET YOU HAVE TO RUSSIFY WINDOWS APPLICATIONS.

ENCODINGS is a way of assigning numeric codes to characters in caracter set. There are two most popular ENCODINGS used for representating CYRILLIC characters: KOI8-R (an official Internet standard encoding) and CPI251 (known as Microsoft standard encoding). Netscape Navigator 4.0  and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 and higher can automatically translate text from one encoding to another.

TO RUSSIFY YOUR APPLICATIONS:
1. START NAVIGATOR OR MS EXPLORER
2. SELECT "VIEW" ON THE TOP MENU
3. CLICK ON "ENCODING"
4. CHOSE "CYRILLIC WINDOWS"
5. PRESS "OK" BUTTON.

If you won't be able to read some of the Russian sites click on  MORE in ENCODING option. From the options chose encoding KOI8 and press "OK". If you still experience troubles and need more information, check   http://www.siber.com/sib/russify  This site gives complete and easy to understand information regarding this subject.

Good Luck,
Natasha