Russifying Netscape in XWindows

1. If you have root access, copy Netscape.ac to /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape (remember, without the ".ad" at the end of the filename!).

2. Add the font directory where the Cyrillic fonts are located to the font path.

   Linux roots: add the line
   FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
   in the Section "Files" of /etc/XF86Config.

   Non-roots: add the lines
   xset +fp
   xset fp rehash
   to your .xsession or .xinitrc соответственно

3. Run
   > xlsfonts '*koi8*' just to know what's written in the end of the KOI8 font names (e.g. it will be "koi8-r" on Slackware Linux distribution 3.0.0), but it may be as well something like "koi8r-1").

4. roots:
   add the line *documentFonts.charset*koi8-r: iso-8859-1
   to the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape.

   non-roots:
   add this line to your .Xdefaults file.

5. Run Netscape, choose the menu Options / General Preferences / Fonts, and change the Proportional and Fixed fonts to russian fonts (e.g. Times(Cronyx) and Courier(Cronyx)).

   You can get Russian fonts from: ftp://nic.switch.ch/mirror/linux/distributions/slackware/slakware/x9/x312fcyr.tgz There must be another set of Russian fonts at ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/cyrillic/fonts_for_X_windows

   Created by: Vadik Vygonets

   vadik@dfw.net http://www.dfw.net/~vadik/

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