Re: Does ConTeXt really support russian language

Re: Does ConTeXt really support russian language

[Andrey Riabushenko]

Pdftex
Preferably utf8 encoding


>pdfTeX, XeTeX or LuaTeX?

>Wolfgang

>> I have spend three days trying to make ConTeXt show Cyrillic letters  
>> with zero
>> success.
>> I have tried to follow  http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian  
>> precisely still
>> I see only latin transliteration instead of Cyrillic letters.
>> The funny thing that http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Vietnamese gives  
>> absolutely
>> different set of commands for internationalization. I have tried  
>> them as well
>> with no luck.
>>
>> I have tried about 10 variants that I have found on  
>> wiki.contextgarden.net and
>> ntg-context@ntg.nl maillist NONE of them produce russian letters  
>> just latin
>> transliteration and empty text.
>>
>> I have tried so far:
>> Fresh install of TeX Live 2008 on Windows XP
>> Fresh install of TeTeX 3 on FreeBSD 7
>> Fresh install of Latest Context Minimals on FreeBSD 7 (installed on
>> 22-12-2008)
>>
>>
>> LaTeX, from the same installations of TeXlive 2008 and teTeX,  works  
>> out box,
>> just as simple as:
>> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>> \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
>>
>> Does any can give me a working example of cyrillic text in conTeXt?
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Re: Does ConTeXt really support russian language

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2008-12-24 um 19:12 schrieb Andrey Riabushenko:

> Pdftex
> Preferably utf8 encoding


I had no problems typesetting a russian text simply using UTF-8  
encoding with XeTeX - and of course an OpenType font containing  
cyrillic glyphs (TeX Gyre).

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