The Linux Cyrillic HOWTO

Alexander L. Belikoff, (abel@bfr.co.il), Berger Financial Research Ltd.

1. Administrativia

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Availability and feedback
• 1.3 Acknowledgments and copyrights

2. Theoretical background

• 2.1 Characters and codesets

3. Preparing your environment

• 3.1 Text mode setup
• 3.2 The X Window System
• 3.3 First steps - Cyrillic in shells
• 3.4 bash
• 3.5 csh/tcsh
• 3.6 ksh
• 3.7 less
• 3.8 mc (The Midnight Commander)
• 3.9 rlogin
• 3.10 zsh

4. Editing text

• 4.1 Emacs and XEmacs
• 4.2 Using vi
• 4.3 Editing text with joe
• 4.4 Spell-checking Russian

5. Using Cyrillic with mail and news

• 5.1 Setting up Mail User Agents
• 5.2 Configuring your MTA

6. Browsing the Cyrillic Web

• 6.1 lynx
• 6.2 Netscape navigator

7. Cyrillic wordprocessing

• 7.1 TeX-based environments
• 7.2 The StarOffice suite

8. Printing and PostScript

• 8.1 Text to PostScript conversion
• 8.2 Text to TeX conversion

9. Cyrillic in PostScript

• 9.1 Adding Cyrillic fonts to Ghostscript

10. Print setup

• 10.1 Pre-loading Cyrillic fonts into a non-PostScript printer
• 10.2 Printing with different fonts

11. Localization and Internationalization

• 11.1 Locale
• 11.2 Internationalization

12. Staying compatible

• 12.1 MIME-based data compatibility
• 12.2 Explicit character set conversion
• 12.3 Cyrillic in the DOS emulator

13. Bibliography

14. Summary of the various useful resources