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Adding short description: "Localization to the Russian language"

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{{Short description|Localization to the Russian language}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019|cs1-dates=y}}In [[computing]], '''Russification''' involves the [[Internationalization and localization|localization]] of [[computers]] and [[Software localization|software]], allowing the [[user interface]] of a computer and its software to communicate in the [[Russian language]] using [[Cyrillic script]].

Problems associated with Russification before the advent of [[Unicode]] included the absence of a single [[character encoding|character-encoding]] standard for [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] (see [[Cyrillic script#Computer encoding]]).

==History of the MS-DOS Russification==
The first official Russification of [[MS-DOS]] was carried out for [[MS-DOS 4.01]] in 1989/1990, released on {{start date|1990|04|09|df=yes}}. In [[Microsoft]], the Russification project manager and one of its main developers was Nikolai Lyubovny (Николай Любовный).<ref name="Starikov"/><ref name="Starikov_Interview"/> A Russian version of [[MS-DOS 5.0]] was also developed in 1991,<ref name="Starikov"/> released on {{start date|1991|08|09|df=yes}}. Based on an initiative of Microsoft Germany in March 1991, derivates of the Russian MS-DOS 5.0 drivers used for keyboard, display and printer localization support (DISPLAY.SYS, EGS.CPI, EGA2.CPI, [[KEYB.COM]], [[KEYBOARD.SYS]], MSPRINT.SYS, COUNTRY.SYS, ALPHA.EXE) could also be purchased separately (with English messages) as part of Microsoft's ''AlphabetPlus'' kit. This enabled English issues of MS-DOS 3.3, 4.01 and 5.0 to be set up for Eastern European countries like Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria.<ref name="Starikov"/>

==Russification of Microsoft Windows==
A comprehensive instruction set for computer Russification is maintained by Paul Gorodyansky.<ref name="Winrus"/> It is mirrored in many places and recommended by the U.S. [[Library of Congress]].<ref name="Russify"/>

==See also==
* [[Cyrillization]]
* [[GOST 10859]]
* [[Romanization of Russian]]
* [[АДОС]], unrelated to Russian MS-DOS
* [[PTS-DOS]]
* [[Mojibake]]

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Starikov">{{cite web |title=DOS, Works, Windows… Далее везде… 15-летию Russian MS-DOS 4.01 посвящается |trans-title=15 Years of Russian MS-DOS 4.01 |author-first=Yuri |author-last=Starikov |language=ru |url=http://rdos401.org/ |access-date=2019-08-21 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810085750/http://rdos401.org/ |archive-date=2019-08-10}}</ref>
<ref name="Starikov_Interview">{{cite web |title=Интервью с Юрием Стариковым — первым советским программистом в Microsoft |language=ru |author-first=Yuri |author-last=Starikov |date=2007-09-17 |url=http://www.developers.org.ua/archives/koldovsky/2007/09/17/yuriy-starikov-interview/ |access-date=2019-08-21 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508145849/http://dou.ua/lenta/digests/yuriy-starikov-interview/ |archive-date=2014-05-08}}</ref>
<ref name="Winrus">{{cite web |date=2010 |author-first=Paul |author-last=Gorodyansky |website=winrus.com |title=Russian keyboard etc. - Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet - Русская клавиатура и т.п. - Инструкции: русский под нерусской Windows и в Интернете |language=en, ru |url=http://winrus.com/index_en.htm |access-date=2019-08-21 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111052726/http://winrus.com/index_en.htm |archive-date=2018-11-11}}</ref>
<ref name="Russify">{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/european/russify.html |title=Tips on viewing Cyrillic text |date=2010-09-21 |publisher=[[The Library of Congress]] |work=European Reading Room |access-date=2007-09-28 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209202812/http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/russify.html |archive-date=2018-12-09}}</ref>
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==External links==
* [http://porusski.net Modern Online (Virtual) Keyboard for Russian (not just alphabet order)]
* [http://www.incks.com/en/russian.html Online Keyboard for Russian]
* [http://softcorporation.com/products/cyrillic/index.html Virtual Russian Online Keyboard with Spellcheck]

[[Category:User interfaces]]
[[Category:Russian language]]
[[Category:Natural language and computing|Russification]]
[[Category:Russian-language computing| ]]
[[Category:Computing in the Soviet Union]]

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