This site uses the Windows-1251 Character Set to display Ukrainian fonts. As the site develops, this feature will become more evident on the site as Ukrainian fonts will be used more frequently.

Both Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x and Netscape Navigator 4.x handle this encoding, and you shouldn't experience any problems viewing Ukrainian fonts. Below is an example of Plast Australia in Ukrainian.

 Reading Ukrainian Text (Windows 9x and Me)
 Typing Ukrainian Text (Windows 9x and Me)
 Typing Ukrainian Text (Windows XP)
 Spellchecking in Ukrainian (Office 2000/XP/2003)
 Ukrainian e-mail and webpages
 Creating your own webpages in Ukrainian
 Download Ukrainian fonts

More information can be found at http://www.cym.org/ and at http://www.brama.com/, specifically http://www.brama.com/compute/configpc.html.

Note: If you are using IE and Outlook, you should also read this page! However, it is written in Ukrainian, so to view, your browser must already be set up to read Cyrillic fonts…
Jourakhovski on ukr-IE5 or Jourakhovski on ukr-IE4
(depending on browser version)

Note:This section applies to Windows 9x/Me only. For Windows NT/2000/XP, multilanguage support is installed automatically.

Installing support for Ukrainian language characters on Windows 95 and 98 can be achieved by means of loading the Microsoft Windows (code page 1251) Ukrainian (Cyrillic) Unicode fonts onto your machine. Without this (or a similar approach), you will not be able to see Ukrainian text on your screen – instead, you will see what may appear to be nonsensical characters…

When installed, you should be able to read the following text: Пласт в Австралії (Plast v Avstraliyi)

1. Click the Start button
2. Point to Settings, then to Control Panel
   
3. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon
   
4. Click the Windows Setup tab - the middle tab at the top of the Add/Remove Program Properties window.
5. Scroll down to and click on Multilanguage Support
6. Click the Details button
   
7. Select Cyrillic Language Support, then Click OK
   
8. Click OK at the bottom of the Add/Remove Programs window
   
9. If asked, insert you Windows CD and Click OK
10. When the files have been installed, you will be asked to restart your computer. You should do this

1. Click the keyboard layout you prefer, to download it
   
   (Standard Windows Layout)
   
   (Uke1 Style Layout)
   
   (Completely Phonetic Layout)
2. Unzip the keyboard file and run the 'Install..' file
   (For advanced users: if your system folder resides somewhere other than C:\Windows\System, modify the batch file to its location)
   NB: If you use Windows 2000, you should get the layout in the next section for Windows XP, and steps may vary slightly)
3. Click the Start button
4. Point to Settings, then Control Panel
   
5. Double-click the Keyboard icon
   
6. Windows 95/98: Click the Language tab (middle tab at the top of the Keyboard Properties window)
   Windows NT: Click the Input Locales tab (middle tab at the top of the Keyboard Properties window)
   
7. Click the Add button
8. In the Add Language dialogue box that comes up, scroll down to Ukrainian, then click OK
9. Select a short keystroke method to switch languages (you can choose between Left Alt+Shift, Ctrl+Shift, None
10. If you would like a blue box saying En or Uk (depending on current language), allowing you to switch languages, select Enable indicator on taskbar
11. If you are asked to insert the Windows CD, click OK, then click Skip File
12. After performing these steps, you will now be able to type in Ukrainian with various Windows fonts, including Arial, Arial Black, Arial Narrow, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Century, Century Gothic, Century Schoolbook, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Fraklin Gothic.., Garamond, Georgia, Georgia Ref, Haettenschweiler, Impact, Lucida Console, Lucida Sans Unicode, Metropol 95, Monotype Corsivia, MS Reference Serif, MS Reference Sans Serif, Palatino Linotype, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Vera Humana 95, Verdana, Verdana Ref, these and more can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/typography and http://www.brama.com/, or links from those sites
13. To switch languages, either click the blue box in your system tray (usually bottom right corner of the screen), and select the language you require, or use the keyboard shortcut you chose

And prefer this Uke1 style layout:

,

you should extract/unzip this zip file

[If you do not know how to do this: when prompted, ask to Open the file.
Next click 'Extract all files' as shown.


Then press Next, Next and Finish.]

and run the 'Uke1.msi' file, and you should be greeted with this screen:

1. Click your Start button
2. Point to Settings, then Control Panel (and click it)
3. If you are not in Category View, select Switch to Category View on the left sidebar
4. Click on Date, Time and Regional Options
5. Click Add other languages
6. Click Details
7. Click the Add button on the right hand side
8. In Input Language, select Ukrainian
9. In Keyboard layout/IME, select Ukrainian
(Uke1)

10. Click Language Bar, if you wish to set up a bar near the system tray to change languages
11. Click Key Settings, if you wish to set up a shortcut keystroke for changing languages
12. After performing these steps, you will now be able to type in Ukrainian with various Windows fonts, including Arial, Arial Black, Arial Narrow, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Century, Century Gothic, Century Schoolbook, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Fraklin Gothic.., Garamond, Georgia, Georgia Ref, Haettenschweiler, Impact, Lucida Console, Lucida Sans Unicode, Metropol 95, Monotype Corsivia, MS Reference Serif, MS Reference Sans Serif, Palatino Linotype, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Vera Humana 95, Verdana, Verdana Ref, these and more can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/typography and http://www.brama.com/, or links from those sites
13. To switch languages, either click the language bar near your system tray (usually bottom right corner of the screen), and select the language you require,
    
    or use the keyboard shortcut you chose earlier (usually Alt+Shift)

To spellcheck in Ukrainian, you must obtain the Ukrainian spellchecker. You can get this from http://www.zjzmpop.co.yu/Ukrainian2000.zip.

Once you have set up reading and typing facilities for Ukrainian, sending and receiving Ukrainian e-mailshould be possible without any more setup, especially if you are using an email client like Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express. Other e-mail programs may require some minor configuration, depending on which one you use. If you are having problems with this feature, make sure that the default font you have chosen in your email client is one of the Unicode ones listed above that include Ukrainian characters. It is important to remember these two things when sending and receiving mail in Ukrainian:

1. When you type an email in Ukrainian, make sure to tell your email program to send the text in a Cyrillic encoding scheme. Even though you see Ukrainian letters, your recipient may not, if you don’t do this. For example, if using Outlook, go to the Format menu and choose any one of theCyrillic encoding schemes when sending a letter in Ukrainian.
2. When receiving email, if you see strange characters where you were expecting Ukrainian ones, try adjusting your email program’s Encodingoption for that particular received email – your email program may not have detected the correct Cyrillic encoding scheme automatically.

Most web pages containing Ukrainian text will automatically work properly, especially newer versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape. If you are encountering problems with Ukrainian webpages, follow these steps:

1. IE4: Click View on the toolbar, then Fonts. 
    IE5: Click on Encoding

2. You will be given choices, first for size, then for encoding. For Ukrainian, available options are Cyrillic Alphabet (ISO), Cyrillic Alphabet (KOI8), Cyrillic Alphabet (Windows) 

If these options are not present, install them from your Internet Explorer installation disk. You’ll need to run the Internet Explorer setup program and specifically choose to the Cyrillic character support from the Internationalization options. If you don’t have this installation program, you can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/ie for free.

3. The most common will be Cyrillic Alphabet (Windows). Click this choice. 

4. Your browser will reload the page. If the page is not readable try Cyrillic Alphabet (KOI8-R) orCyrillic Alphabet (ISO) or any of the other Cyrillic options.

5. If you have problems, contact me, or visit one of the alternate locations listed at the top of this page.

1. Click View on the toolbar, then Character Set

2. You will be given numerous encoding choices. Your three Ukrainian options will be Cyrillic (KOI8-R), Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5), Cyrillic (Windows-1251)

3. The most common will be Cyrillic (Windows-1251). Click this choice.

4. Your browser will reload the page. If the page is not readable try Cyrillic (KOI8-R), or Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5) or any of the other Cyrillic options.

Netscape 6

1. Click View on the menu bar, then Character Coding

2. If Ukrainian appears in Auto-Detect select that option, otherwise select Cyrillic (Windows-1251), or if that doesn't appear, West-European, then one of the Cyrillic/Ukrainian options (usually Cyrillic (Windows-1251). If this one doesn't work try another Cyrillic one.

To make sure the end-user's browser will automatically appear with the right encoding, when making webpages with Ukrainian text, make sure you include the line;

• <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1251">

somewhere between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags, so the web page source should look something (very vaguely) like this:

<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1251"><TITLE>Enter Page Title</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Enter Document Body Here</BODY></HTML>