Macintosh Slavic Fonts and Keyboards

This page is not a complete collection of all Slavic fonts and keyboards available for the Macintosh. It is intended to provide a location for stuff not easily available and to give George Fowler a place to put his latest creations.

Cyrillic Fonts

Apple Standard Cyrillic Fonts. These are fonts created by Apple Computer as part of their international system 7 software. These are available from Apple's FTP site at "ftp.apple.com". If you want just the fonts, download disk three. If you want to install the full Russian version of System 7, download everything in this folder. If you wish full information on Russification of your Macintosh, you should visit the following sites.

 Russification of the Macintosh by Matvey Palchuk.

 George Fowler's Fowler font is useful for those that want to read his Russian text corpora.


East European Latin Fonts

Apple Standard Fonts. More fonts by Apple Computer as part of their internationalization project. These fonts will cover most symbols necessary for Slavic and East European languages using the Latin alphabet. These are available from Apple's FTP site at "ftp.apple.com". Here you will find folders for the Czech version of Apple's system software. If you want to install the full Czech version of System 7, download everything in this folder. If you want just the fonts, download both the Fonts disk and the  More Fonts disk. Apple also offers other versions of System 7. Go to ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/ for the language you desire.


Keyboards

Cyrillic Keyboards Keyboard layouts by George Fowler for use with the Apple Standard Cyrillic fonts. Also includes KMT, a useful utitlity for accessing various keyboards and Apple's keyboard layouts.

 Central European Keyboards Keyboard layouts by George Fowler for use with the Apple Central European fonts.