In computing, Russification is the localization of computers and of software, i.e., making the user interface of a computer and software to communicate in Russian language and Russian alphabet. RAM (Random Access Memory) Look up computing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Internationalization redirects here. ... The tower of a personal computer. ... Software localization is a process of translating software user interfaces from one language to another and adapting it to suit a foreign culture. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ... Russian ( , transliteration: , ) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. ... Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...

Among the problems associated with Russification was absence of a single character encoding standard for Russian / Cyrillic alphabet, see Cyrillic alphabet#Computer encoding before the advent of the unicode. A character encoding or character set (sometimes referred to as code page) consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers... The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is actually a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by certain Slavic languages — Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian—as well as many other languages of the former Soviet Union... The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is actually a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by certain Slavic languages — Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian—as well as many other languages of the former Soviet Union... The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ...

History of the MS DOS russification

The first official Russification of MS DOS was carried out for MS DOS 4.01. In Microsoft, the russification project manager and one of main developers was Nickolay Lyubovny (Николай Любовный). ^[1] MS-DOS (short for MicroSoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system commercialized by Microsoft. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ...

Russification of Microsoft Windows

A comprehensive instruction set for computer Russification is maintained by Paul Gorodyansky ^[2]. It is mirrored in many places and recommended by the U.S. Library of Congress^[3] Construction of the Thomas Jefferson Building, from July 8, 1888 to May 15, 1894. ...

See also

• GOST 10859
• Romanization of Russian

For romanization of Russian on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian. ...

References

1. ^ Yuri Starikov, 15 Years of Russian MS DOS 4.01 (Russian)
2. ^ Information on Windows Russification, by Paul Gorodyansky
3. ^ "Tips on viewing Cyrillic text", U.S. LOC (assessed September 28, 2007)

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External links

• Online Keyboard for Russian