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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Is there some simple way to set up BL2 to type and print Cyrillic using 
downloaded fonts?  I found a DOS program that does this (VGA screen fonts 
and downloaded 9 or 24 pin printer fonts) but the character set used is 
off by one number from cp866 in lower case (so if you type the Russian 
equivalent of abcde and then send the file to someone else to read they 
will see bcdef, but ABCDE comes out right).

kdb.tgz has the keyboard and font programs, but how does one print with 
downloadable fonts in linux?  Graphical printing is at least 8 times as 
slow (with a different DOS program it makes 8 passes to print one word).

Another oddity is that the program with the screen fonts displays on one 
386 with the bottom few pixels of each letter duplicated below the 
character looking like a jagged underline.  Usable but strange.  On the 
other 386 there is no contrast control so you cannot use the program 
(which is in color and therefore not legible) but the above problem does 
not occur.  (This latter computer won't do linux).  Is linux likely to 
have the same display problems with screen fonts?   The problem persists 
after exiting the program but goes away when you use the other Russian 
typing program (which is graphical).  The first program does not work on a 
286, it crashes instead.  This is for a visiting Bulgarian neighbor who 
asked why all the typewriters here were Roman alphabet.





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