Re: Russia (cyrillic letters)

[Mikael Persson <mickep@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:34:22 +0100, Rob Ermers <r.ermers@hccnet.nl> wrote:
> Dear Contexers,
> 
> I am still struggling with a Russian text in koi8.
> The sample below, which I partially copied (from Mikael Persson's site)
> does not work.
> 
> Can anyone help me out?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Robert Ermers
> 
> -----------
> 
> \enableregime[koi8-r]
> \useencoding[cyr]
> 
> \definetypeface [russian]
>    [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a]
> 
> \definetypeface [swedish]
>    [rm] [serif] [latin-modern] [default] [encoding=texnansi]
> 
> \setupbodyfont[russian]
> 
> \starttext
> Some swedish text:
> 
> {\switchtobodyfont[swedish]Jag tycker att Katja studerar d\aring ligt.}
> 
> Some russian text:
> 
> ÂÌÁÇÏÓÌÏ×ÉÔ áÌÌÁÈ ÅÇÏ É ÅÇÏ ÂÌÉÖÎÉÈ ÂÌÁÇÏÒÏÄÎÅÊÛÅÇÏ ÐÒÏÉÓÈÏÖÄÅÎÉÑ É
> ÄÁÒÕÅÔ ÉÍ ÍÉÒ
> 
> %this sample works, but it's not koi8: Ìèå êàæåòñÿ, ÷òî Êàòÿ ïëîõî ó÷èòñÿ.
> \stoptext
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Hm, there seems to be a problem somewhere, saving a file on my
computer, uploading it to the web-server, downloading it to your place
and opening it. It is probably the web server that tells it is not
koi8-r but iso8859-1 or something. However, the koi8-r is not yet
working. What is working is the Windows-1251 encoding, as in the
example (ok, type your own russian characters and be sure to save the
file in Windows-1251 encoding). I would recommend though, to use utf-8
as described at http://contextgarden.net/Russian . I should probably
remove my page and refer to the one at contextgarden instead.

I had a conversation with Hans about adding support for koi8r aswell,
but I don't know exactly what to do. If somebody tells me, then I'll
do it.

/Micke P

PS I spoke to another russian I know, who is a Windows person. She
told me that they use the Windows-1251 encoding at her department,
contrary to the first russian I asked who said koi8r was the most
common...