Apple Macintosh Cyrillic User Manual
M a c i ntosh Cyr i l l ic
Lang u a ge Ki t
Installation and User’s Manual
Manuel d’installation et d’u t i l i s a t i o n
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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction A-1
About this manual A-1
About the Cyrillic Language Kit A-1
Requirements A-2
Chapter 2 Setting Up A-3
Installing the Cyrillic Language Kit from the compact disc A-3
Installing the Cyrillic Language Kit from floppy disks A-3
Displaying Cyrillic filenames correctly A-5
Installing SimpleText Bulgarian, Russian, or Ukrainian A-6
Removing the Cyrillic Language Kit from your system A-6
Chapter 3 Choosing a Language for Your
Application Program A-9
The Cyrillic Language Register program A-9
Registering your program for Cyrillic A-9
Creating a Roman Language Register A-10
Chapter 4 Working in Multiple Languages A-11
What are scripts? A-11
Primary and secondary scripts A-12
Choosing a keyboard layout A-12
The Cyrillic Language Kit keyboard layouts A-12
About the Cyrillic transliterated keyboard layouts A-13
The Bulgarian keyboard layout A-13
The Russian keyboard layout A-14
The Ukrainian keyboard layout A-14
The Cyrillic-QWERTY transliterated keyboard layout A-15
The Cyrillique-AZERTY transliterated keyboard layout A-16
The Kyrillisch-QWERTZ transliterated keyboard layout A-17
Transliteration guidelines A-18
The Keyboard control panel A-20
The Text control panel A-20
The Cyrillic characters encoding table A-22
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting A-23
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Chapter 1
Introduction
About this manual
This manual explains how to install your Cyrillic Language Kit. You
will also learn how to designate which of your application programs should be opened in Russian (or another language using
Cyrillic characters), and how to use the new control panels and
menus that the language kit adds to your system software.
Here is how to use this manual:
1. Decide which parts of the Cyrillic Language Kit you
want to install.
Follow the instructions in Chapter 2 of this manual to install
the Cyrillic Language Kit for Bulgarian, Russian, or Ukrainian.
2. Display Cyrillic filenames and folder names correctly.
Follow the instructions in Chapter 2 to adjust the Views
control panel so that you can read Cyrillic filenames.
3. Display Cyrillic menus correctly in your Russian (or
other language) application programs.
Most application programs display menus correctly after you
install the Cyrillic Language Kit. Follow the instructions in
Chapter 3 of this manual to designate Cyrillic as the script for
your Bulgarian, Russian, or Ukrainian program.
4. To find out more about the Cyrillic language support
you have installed, read Chapter 4 of this manual.
Chapter 4 explains how to use the new Keyboards menu, and
how to set your Text and Keyboard control panels to
customize your computer’s Cyrillic capabilities. It also displays
the keyboard layouts provided with the language kit.
About the Cyrillic Language Kit
The Cyrillic Language Kit contains all the software you need to
work in Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, or other languages using
Cyrillic characters on your computer. You can use your
computer’s Cyrillic capabilities in two ways:
m If you have a Macintosh application program that has been
localized for use in Russian or other Cyrillic-script languages,
the menus, dialog boxes, help messages, and other elements
will be displayed in that language.
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m You can enter English and Cyrillic-script languages in a single
document, using almost any Cyrillic or non-Cyrillic
application program.
The Cyrillic Language Kit includes:
m System software resources needed for Cyrillic-script
languages.
m Three Cyrillic TrueType and PostScript fonts:
APC Courier, Bastion, and Latinski
m Three Cyrillic bitmap fonts:
Requirements
The Cyrillic Language Kit runs on any Macintosh computer
equipped with the following:
m Macintosh system software version 7.1 or later.
m At least 4 megabytes of RAM (8 megabytes if you are using
Macintosh System 7.5 with QuickDraw GX installed).
On a Power Macintosh at least 8 megabytes of RAM
(16 megabytes if you are using System 7.5 with QuickDraw
GX installed).
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m The Cyrillic Language Register, a program that lets you specify
which of your application programs should be opened with
Cyrillic-script menus. Programs registered for Russian will
display menus and dialog boxes in the Cyrillic writing system.
m Key caps labels representing Bulgarian, Russian, and
Ukrainian keyboard layouts that can be applied to your
keyboard.
m A choice of keyboard layouts including the standard
Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian layouts, as well as
phonetically transcribed keyboard layouts for the standard
QWERTY (English), AZERTY (French), and QWERTZ
(German) keyboard layouts.
m SimpleText Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
m An internal or external hard disk drive.
m A floppy disk drive capable of reading high-density
(1.4-megabyte) floppy disks, or a CD-ROM drive.
Chapter 2
Setting Up
Before you can use the Cyrillic Language Kit you must install the
software. You may also want to consider setting your Views
control panel to display Cyrillic file and folder names correctly on
your screen.
Installing the Cyrillic Language Kit from the
compact disc
If your computer has a CD-ROM drive, you can install the Cyrillic
Language Kit from the Macintosh Cyrillic Language Kit CD disc
that came with your kit. To use the CD-ROM for installation,
follow the instructions in the next section of this manual,
“Installing the Cyrillic Language Kit from Floppy Disks.” The
procedure is the same, but you won’t have to swap disks.
Everything you need is contained on the CD-ROM disc.
Installing the Cyrillic Language Kit from
floppy disks
3 megabytes of space on your hard disk. This space is made
available to you again after installation is completed.
Your Cyrillic Language Kit includes four disks. You will need three
of these disks for English installation, Install 1, English,
Install 2, and Install 3. Have these disks ready before you begin.
The Installer provides you with four installation choices:
m Bulgarian installation (includes the Bulgarian keyboard layout,
the Cyrillic-QWERTY transliterated keyboard layout, and six
Cyrillic fonts).
m Russian installation (includes the Russian keyboard layout, the
Cyrillic-QWERTY transliterated keyboard layout, and six
Cyrillic fonts).
m Ukrainian installation (includes the Ukrainian keyboard layout,
the Cyrillic-QWERTY transliterated keyboard layout, and six
Cyrillic fonts).
m Optional items, including Cyrillic PostScript fonts, and
additional keyboard layout choices.
v Note: To find out more about the keyboard layouts included in
your Cyrillic Language Kit, read Chapter 4 of this manual. v
The installation process automatically makes a backup copy of
your System Folder (to protect the contents during installation of
the Cyrillic Language Kit). The backup copy uses approximately
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Unless you’ve already installed Bulgarian, Russian, or Ukrainian
language support, you should install at least one of these choices. You
can choose as many of the optional installation items as you want.
1. Quit any open application programs.
If you have any virus-detection software, turn it off.
v Note: It’s best to start your computer with all extensions
turned off before doing the installation. To do so, hold the
Shift key down while your computer is starting. v
2. Insert the Install 1, English disk into your floppy disk
drive (or insert the Macintosh Cyrillic Language Kit
CD disc into your CD-ROM drive).
You should see the Installer icon in the Install 1, English
disk’s window.
3. Open the Installer by double-clicking its icon.
6. Click the items you want to install to select them.
Click the
checkbox
of each
item you
want to
install.
Make sure this is
the name of the
disk where you
want to install the
language kit.
Click here to
switch to a
different disk
for installation.
Click here to
install the Cyrillic
Language Kit.
7. Click Install.
Messages tell you when you need to insert another disk. It
takes a few minutes to complete the installation.
A welcome screen appears.
4. Click Continue.
The Custom Install dialog box appears.
5. Make sure that the hard disk named is the one where
you want to install Cyrillic.
If a different disk name appears, click the Switch Disk button
until you see the name of the correct disk.
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Chapter 2: Setting Up
8. If you see a message telling you to restart your
computer, choose Restart.
v Note: If you installed on a disk different from your startup
disk, you will first be asked to quit the Installer application.
You must designate the hard disk where you installed the
Cyrillic Language Kit as your startup disk, then restart your
computer to activate Cyrillic language support. v
Your computer now supports the Cyrillic writing system.
Displaying Cyrillic filenames correctly
If you have files and folders with Cyrillic names on your computer,
you may find that your system can’t correctly display these Cyrillic
names. This can happen if the font your system currently uses for
file and folder names is not appropriate for Cyrillic.
For example, many people use the Geneva font for file and folder
names, but Geneva contains only characters for English and other
languages that use the Roman character set (such as French,
Spanish, and German).
The Latinski font installed with the Cyrillic Language Kit contains
Cyrillic characters as well as the most commonly used Roman
characters. You can view Cyrillic file and folder names correctly by
setting the Views control panel to Latinski.
Follow these steps to set the Views control panel:
1. Choose Control Panels from the Apple (K) menu.
2. Open the Views control panel.
3. Press the “Font for views” pop-up menu.
4. Choose Latinski (or any other Cyrillic font you prefer).
Choose Latinski.
5. Close the Views control panel.
Most Cyrillic application programs display Cyrillic correctly after
you install the Cyrillic Language Kit. If you have an application
program that does not display the menus correctly, follow the
instructions in Chapter 3 to designate Cyrillic as the script for your
Cyrillic program.
v Note: If your computer’s primary language uses the Roman
character set, but is not English, specifying a Cyrillic font in
the Views control panel may cause some difficulties in reading
file and folder names that use Roman characters. This is
because the Cyrillic fonts do not contain umlauts, accents, and
some other non-English Roman characters and symbols. v
If you have more than one language kit installed, you may want to
continue using the Geneva font, since a Cyrillic font will not
contain the characters for other language kits.
Chapter 2: Setting Up
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Installing SimpleText Bulgarian, Russian,
or Ukrainian
SimpleText is a basic multilingual text-editing program that
supports Cyrillic characters, as well as all other available writing
systems. This program is not automatically installed with your
language kit. If you wish to install it, follow these steps:
5. Drag the preferred SimpleText Cyrillic icon to your
hard disk.
1. Do one of the following:
If you have a CD-ROM drive, insert the CD Install disc into
the CD-ROM drive. Otherwise, insert the Install 1, English
disk into your floppy drive.
2. When the floppy disk or CD-ROM disc icon appears on
the screen, double-click it to open it.
3. Locate the SimpleText Cyrillic folder.
If you don’t see the SimpleText Cyrillic folder in the window,
resize the window to make it larger, or scroll the window to
see more.
4. Double-click the SimpleText Cyrillic folder to open it.
If you have more than one version of SimpleText on your
computer—for instance, SimpleText Ukrainian and an English
version—the wrong version may start when you try to open a
SimpleText file. Instead of opening a SimpleText file directly, first
open the version of SimpleText you want to use, then choose
Open from the File menu to open your file.
v Note: Your existing version of SimpleText will also support
Cyrillic text entry. SimpleText Cyrillic is not required to use the
Cyrillic Language Kit. v
Removing the Cyrillic Language Kit from
your system
If you wish to remove the Cyrillic Language Kit from your system,
use the Installer to remove all the files that provide Cyrillic
language support.
If you have other language kits on your system, don’t worry. The
Installer will not remove any support needed for your other
languages.
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Chapter 2: Setting Up
To remove Cyrillic language support you need the Install 1,
English disk.
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