Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7

ATTENTION: KOI8-R encoding is not native for Microsoft Windows. The right solution should be conversion between KOI8-R and CP1251 or Unicode for all operations with KOI8-R materials.

See The most natural way to teach WinNT speaking KOI8-R.

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Fonts:

Obsoleted Win3.* KOI8-R fonts should work with WinNT too, but not recommended. Proper way will be using Win95/WinNT Unicode fonts.

Keyboard Layout:

• keyla (XP/Vista), keyboard layout switcher by Evgeny Arshinov, supports multiply keyboard layouts and hotkeys, tray indicator present (source code included).
• RusLat95 (NT/2000/XP/Vista), keyboard switcher by Serge Bykov, supports multiply keyboard layouts and hotkeys.
• Capslang (NT/2000/XP/Vista) by Yury Gorbatchev, switch keyboard layout with CapsLock key and Scroll Lock indication.
• Language switcher by Mike Matsnev, switch input languages by single key like Menu or CapsLock (source code included). Very small, but doesn't works with a few programs.
• KOI8-R Keyboard Layout Driver & Registry Settings (NT) from Dmitry Repkin.
• Keyboard Layout Manager Lite (NT/2000/XP) This program allows you to create and modify Microsoft keyboard layout files.

Character Sets Converters:

• DC - Universal Russian codepage DeCoder , shareware (automatically recognize Dos,Koi8-R,Win,Mac,Iso,Translit,Volapuk,QP)
• InSoft Encoding Changer Family , freeware/donationware from Maks Lebedev (support CP1251, CP866, KOI8-R, ISO 8859-5, MAC-Cyrillic; converter and Encoding Changer Macro for Microsoft Word 97/2000)
• TOT-Recoder , freeware (automatically recode a text from ISO/DOS/KOI8-R into windows-1251, restore damaged messages). Text limited to 30Kb.

Applicable Software:

• X Window Clients:
  • StarNet X-Win32

    Supports KOI8-R, but needs additional keyboard input extra tuning.

• Telnet/SSH:
  • PuTTY: A Free Win32 Telnet/SSH Client freeware (telnet, rlogin, SSH1 & 2, CP866/CP1251/KOI8-R/KOI8-U/ISO-8859-5, supports VT100 pseudographics)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required. RECOMMENDED! Best KOI8-R translation implementation I have seen.

  • Tera Term Pro freeware (BBS, telnet, zmodem, SSH1 separately available , CP866/CP1251/KOI8-R/ISO-8859-5, supports VT100 pseudographics)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required, but translation tables are incorrect. This patch fix two tables to make them conform RFC1489 better: koi8-r <-> windows-1251 and koi8-r <-> cp866. Put it in the TeraTerm directory and run.

  • Secure KoalaTerm 1.1 shareware (A VT420/VT320/VT220/VT100 telnet client, SSH1 & 2, internal KOI8-R support, VT100 line drawing pseudographics)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

  • Secure NetTerm shareware (BBS, telnet, zmodem, ftp server, finger, skey, SSH1 & 2, supports VT100 pseudographics)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

    NOTE: CP866<->KOI8-R translation is used for video, so use Terminal (DOS/OEM) font.
  • F-Secure SSH 5.1 for WinNT4.0/2000/XP Client shareware (a telnet-like client for SSH 1 & 2, VT100 pseudographics)

    Uses translation tables for output & keyboard, so some tuning is possible. Download tuned Keymap.map & Output.map and use them instead of default ones. 1st NOTE: Cyrillic paste will not work because only keyboard translation provided by F-Secure SSH. 2nd NOTE: since EightBitControls option can't be enabled via F-Secure SSH config, I switch it off automatically on every Enter pressed.

• Browsers:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5-8.0 (this browser supports KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required. WARNING: You need to set View|Encoding|Auto-Select to work with some sites with charset specified in the <META> tag.

  • Mozilla v1.7.x (this browser supports KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

  • Firefox v3.* (this browser supports KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

  • Amaya 8.3 (this browser supports KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

  • Lynx 2.8 for Win32 (this console alphanumeric browser has excellent KOI8-R support)

    Tuning.

  • Opera 10.* (this browser supports KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

• HTML Editors:
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 (this HTML editor support KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

    After editing page encoding stored in the <META> tag.
• Newsreaders:
  • Thunderbird (this freeware MUA/Newsreader supports KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

  • Forte Agent (a good newsreader, supports MIME and KOI8-R)

    Win3.1 KOI8-R fonts and KOI8-R keyboard setup required.

    Tuning.

  • Microsoft Outlook Express (this MUA/Newsreader supports KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

    Tuning.

  • News Xpress 2.01 (for Intel) (a freeware newsreader, supports MIME attachments and KOI8-R)

    Win3.1 KOI8-R fonts and KOI8-R keyboard setup required.

    Change all fonts to those with KOI8-R; then, on the File|Options|Compose tab, turn on the Use MIME checkbox, set Encoding type to 8bit and choose KOI8-R in the Character set list. See also NewsXpress FAQ Version 2 .
  • WinVN (for Intel) , WinVN (for Dec Alpha) (MIME attachments supported)

    Win3.1 KOI8-R fonts and KOI8-R keyboard setup required.

    Tuning.

    See also WinVN Newsreader Home Page .
• E-Mail:
  • The Bat! Mail System (shareware, supports KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

    Tuning.

  • Becky! Internet Mail 2.x (shareware, supports KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

    Настройка.

  • Thunderbird (this freeware MUA/Newsreader supports KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

  • Microsoft Outlook Express (this MUA/Newsreader supports KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

    Tuning.

  • Pegasus (this freeware MUA attempts to support KOI8-R)

    Uses translation tables, so only default Russian Windows support is required.

    Tuning.

  • Eudora (this free/shareware MUA have no KOI8-R support)

    Win3.1 KOI8-R fonts and KOI8-R keyboard setup required.

    Tuning.

• Text editors:
  • EmEditor (this free/shareware editor have full KOI8-R & Unicode support)

Software Tuning:

• StarNet X-Win32 tuning:
  1. In the file

     C:\Documents and Settings\{User}\
     Local Settings\Application Data\StarNet\X-Win32\XServer.config

     change or add the following line:

     <Xkb model="pc105" enableXKeyboardExtension="true" layout="us,ru" variant="winkeys" />

     It fixes two keyboards layout mode. NOTE: XConfig.exe may overwrite this line back to wrong one if you attempt to write its input tab options.
     
     
  2. In the file

     C:\Program Files\StarNet\X-Win32 {Version}\xkb\symbols\pc

     add the following line to the end of  xkb_symbols "pc105"  section:

     include "group(ctrl_shift_toggle)"

     or

     include "group(alt_shift_toggle)"

     and then you may use Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift to change RUS/LAT (there is no keyboard switcher present by default and no XkbOptions or something like in the Xserver.config).

For other soft see corresponding Win95/98 section.