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Russian(5)


NAME

  Russian, russian - Introduction to Russian language support


DESCRIPTION

  This reference page describes the coded character set (codeset), locale,
  device, and other kinds of support for the Russian language.

  Codesets

  The operating system supports the following codesets for Russian by means
  of locales, codeset converters, or both:

    ·  ISO 8859-5 (ISO Latin/Cyrillic)

       ISO8859-5 is the string that represents this codeset in the names of
       locales and codeset converters. See iso8859-5(5) for more information.

    ·  UTF-16, UCS-4, and UTF-8

       UTF-16, UCS-4, and UTF-8 are the strings that represent these encoding
       formats in the names of locales and codeset converters. See Unicode(5)
       for more information.

    ·  PC code pages

       cp855, cp866, and cp1251 are the strings that represent these encoding
       formats in the names of codeset converters. See code_page(5) for more
       information.

  See i18n_intro(5) and l10n_intro(5) for introductory information on
  codesets. See iconv_intro(5) for a discussion of codeset converters and how
  to use them.

  Locales

  The operating system provides the following Russian locales:

    ·  ru_RU.ISO8859-5

       The ru_RU.ISO8859-5@ucs4 variant of this locale exists for
       applications that need to convert file data in ISO8859-5 format to
       UCS-4 process code for certain character-classification operations.

    ·  ru_RU.UTF-8

       UTF-8 locales support file code and internal process code according to
       ISO 10646 and Unicode standards. File code, in UTF-8 locales, may
       include characters encoded in more than 1 byte; therefore, use these
       locales in applications that can process multibyte data. The UTF-8
       locale supports the euro monetary symbol; see euro(5).

  You can use the locale command (see locale(1)) to find out which locales
  are installed on your system. See i18n_intro(5) for information on setting
  a locale from the operating system command line.

  In the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), you need to set a locale by
  setting the session language. To do this, from the Options menu of the
  Login window, choose Language. Then, from the Language options menu, choose
  a session language.

  Keyboards

  The operating system supports the following VT-style and PC-style keyboards
  with Russian characters printed on the keys:

  _____________________________________________
  VT-Style (105/108 keys)   PC-Style (102 keys)
  _____________________________________________
  LK411-BT		    LK471-BT
  LK461-BT		    LK47W-BT
  LK46W-BT		    LK97W-BT
			    PCXAL-HT
			    PCXAL-LT
			    PCXAL-PT
			    PCXAL-QT
			    PCXAL-ST
  _____________________________________________

  For your keyboard to function correctly with your system, you must load a
  keyboard mapping table (keymap) that is appropriate for your keyboard's
  model and language. If you load a keymap that does not correspond to your
  keyboard's model and language, your keyboard behavior is unpredictable. The
  label located on the bottom surface of a keyboard usually specifies its
  model (five -letter code) and language (two-letter code). See keyboard(5)
  for general information on keymaps and instructions for loading them in
  different formats. The following tables supply Russian-specific information
  that you need when loading keymaps.

  Selecting keymaps in xkb format:

  ________________________________________________________
  For VT-Style		   For PC-Style
  Keyboard:	 Select:   Keyboard:	  Select:
  ________________________________________________________
  LK411-BT	 lk411	   LK471-BT	  lk471bt or lk471
  LK461-BT	 lk461	   LK47W-BT	  lk471bt or lk471
  LK46W-BT	 lk461	   LK97W-BT	  lk97wbt or lk97w
			   PCXAL-HT	  pcxalht
			   PCXAL-LT	  pcxallt
			   PCXAL-PT	  pcxalpt
			   PCXAL-QT	  pcxalqt
			   PCXAL-ST	  pcxalst
  ________________________________________________________

  Selecting keymaps in xmodmap format:

  _______________________________________________________________
  For VT-Style			   For PC-Style
  Keyboard:	 Select:	   Keyboard:	  Select:
  _______________________________________________________________
  LK411-BT	 russian lk411bt   LK471-BT	  russian pcxalht
  LK461-BT	 russian lk411bt   LK47W-BT	  russian pcxalht
  LK46W-BT	 russian lk411bt   PCXAL-HT	  russian pcxalht
				   PCXAL-LT	  russian pcxallt
				   PCXAL-PT	  russian pcxalpt
				   PCXAL-QT	  russian pcxallt
				   PCXAL-ST	  russian pcxallt
  _______________________________________________________________

  Keyboards can have keys with characters printed on both the left and right
  half of the keycap. The way you set or use your keyboard to send different
  sets of characters varies from one keyboard model to another. Furthermore,
  your keyboard allows you to enter more characters than those printed on the
  keycaps. See keyboard(5) for information on how to enter characters.

  Printers

  The PostScript fonts available for languages supported by the ISO 8859-5
  codeset are listed in iso8859-5(5).

  See i18n_printing(5) for a discussion of printer support options.


SEE ALSO

  Commands: locale(1)

  Others: code_page(5), i18n_intro(5), i18n_printing(5), iconv_intro(5),
  iso8859-5(5), keyboard(5), l10n_intro(5), Unicode(5)

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