Russian Encoding Plurality Problem and a New Cyrillic Font Set
Lyudmila Nikolaevna Znamenskaya, Sergei Vital'evich Znamenskii · 1996
To run TEX with cyrillic in network is a problem. Various widespread Cyrillic coding tables under DOS, UNIX and other OS are incompartible. The ASCII Russian text imported from a different system usually become completely unreadable. The new set of fonts, TDS and some other tools give a solution of the problem for the east-European Cyrillic typsertting users. TEX has become the one of the best known means of communication between scientific people. To solve the problem of plural incompatible Russian TEX systems, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) proposed the idea of creation of a standard non-commercial Russian TEX distribution. Therefore, half a year ago the new “Russian TEX ” project was begim under RFBR support. An important feature of the project is to determine the best system