RE: NT Emacs Latin & cyrillic script

[Dmitri . Minaev]

Hello, Ulrich,

I'd dare to say that the optimal way is to use Emacs/MULE and switch
keyboard layout with MULE, not with the system tools. It lets you type texts
in different character encodings -- 'cyrillic-alternativnyj' (cp866, MS-DOS
Cyrillic), 'cyrillic-koi8' (U*IX Cyrillic) or 'cp1251' (Windows Cyrillic).
To enable cp1251 support, add to .emacs:

   (codepage-setup 1251)
   (define-coding-system-alias 'windows-1251 'cp1251)
   (set-selection-coding-system 'cp1251)

As for the fonts, probably, you could find GNU intlfonts useful (see
http://www.gnu.org/directory/intlfonts.html ). 

In LaTeX, you are supposed to use Babel to enable Cyrillic letters in your
document. Here's a typical preamble of a Russian LaTeX document:

\usepackage[cp1251]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english,russian]{babel}

Note that in the first line you can use other encodings, like koi8-r or
cp866 to indicate the encoding you used to type the source file.

--
With best regards,
Dmitri Minaev


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ulrich Dirr [mailto:ud@art-satz.de]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 6:20 PM
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: NT Emacs Latin & cyrillic script
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm a beginner with emacs ...
> 
> I've downloaded a precompiled version of 21.2 and installed it.
> Everything is working well, even auctex (on Win2k).
> 
> But I would like to input and display latin and cyrillic scripts
> simultaneously. I've read a lot of docs but now I'm more confused than
> before.
> 
> It should be possible to input cyrillic easily with my keyboard. It
> should display correctly as cyrillic, and it should be possible to TeX
> it (say T2A encoding). And I want to be able to switch to latin back.
> 
> Does the language/keyboard support which I've activated in Win2k help?
> Or is this independent of emacs?
> 
> How can I achieve this? Is there a step-by-step guide somewhere?
> 
> Ulrich
> 
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