Tools for Old Russian Orthography -- Инструментар╕й для старой русской ор╛ограф╕и

Digest: This page contains tools for using the old (pre-1918) Russian orthography on a computer. A special 8-bit encoding (KOI8-C) is developed for this purpose. The tools include: a KOI8-C specification; KOI8-C keyboard maps; KOI8-C screen fonts (X Window .bdf fonts and Windows .fon fonts); a program to generate Postscript from plain text and BDF fonts; a spellchecking dictionary for ispell, a script to help converting to/from old orthography. All software on this page is free software in the sense of the Free Software Foundation.

Tools:

• KOI8-C documentation and tools, including:
  • oldrus-ispell -- the spellchecking dictionary for old Russian orthography
    • documentation
    • Download oldrus-ispell from the SourceForge project page -- also has CVS, mailing lists, etc.
    • Screenshot: using oldrus-ispell from a text editor
  • xcyr -- an X window screen font package for the KOI8-C encoding, based on the Cronyx BDF fonts
    • documentation
    • Download xcyr
    • Screenshot: using xcyr fonts in Netscape (also, a character map is shown)
• txtbdftps, a program to print plain text in Postscript using a BDF font

-- Serge Winitzki

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