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Linux Belarusian HOWTO

Alexander Mikhailian, mikhailian@altern.org

v.0.1.4, 25 June 2000

Short guide in setting up Belarusian language support in Linux console, X Window System, web-browsers, text editors, etc. Charsets described are windows-1251, iso-8859-5 and koi8-ru. Belarusian characters can also be found in koi8-ub, koi8-c and of course, Unicode. Although this HOWTO is Linux-specific, many advices are applicable to other UNIX-like systems.

1. Introduction

1.1 History
1.2 Comments
1.3 New Versions
1.4 Copyright
1.5 Acknowledgements and Thanks

2. System-wide setup

2.1 Choosing Charset
2.2 Windows-1251 in the kernel
2.3 Setting locale
2.4 Belarusian in console
2.5 Belarusian in X Window System

3. Editing texts

3.1 Emacs
3.2 Spell-checking
3.3 TeX

4. Browsers

4.1 Netscape
4.2 Lynx

5. Mailers

5.1 Netscape Messenger
5.2 Mutt

6. Further support

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