Using the Russian Language Facilities
The Russian language facilities can help you to develop, run, and view applications in Russian using the Cyrillic alphabet (ISO 8859-5). KBs developed in Russian are platform independent, and can run without modification in any G2 language environment.
Entering Cyrillic Text
To enter Cyrillic text, you need only change the current language to Russian.
To change the current language:
- Choose
Main Menu > System Tables > Language Parameters
- Edit the
Current-language attribute and select russian.
When Russian is the current language in your KB, the editor includes two language modes to help you enter Cyrillic, as shown in the following figure:
Each time you invoke the editor, English is the default entry mode and English characters appear as you type.
To toggle between language modes:
Entering Cyrillic Characters
When Cyrillic is the current entry mode, you can enter any letters from the Cyrillic alphabet directly by using the standard keyboard layout:
Entering Additional Cyrillic Characters
While you can enter Cyrillic characters in the editor directly from the keyboard, you may need to enter other characters as well. When the current language is russian, you can enter any character from the ISO-8859-5 character set as a two-digit hexadecimal value.
To enter an ISO-8859-5 code in the editor:
- Type Alt + i to invoke a secondary text entry box.
- Enter the two-digit code, as the next example shows.
The character appears as soon as you enter a valid two-digit code. This example shows entering 36 for the Cyrillic small letter zhe:
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