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== Russian (Cyrillic) fonts and UTF ==
It is now possible (from ConTeXt version 2005-01-27 or 2005-01-31) to type Russian (cyrillic) letters directly in your .tex file using UTF-8 encoding. I have only tested this on TeXLive 2004, but I guess it would work on any distribution as long as you have the cm-super fonts installed (On TeXLive you had to generate the tfm files needed using the <tt>afm2tfm</tt> application(see furhter down on this page for a small python script that enables you to create all tfm files), or by using the fonts in LaTeX). Here is a minimal(?) working file.
<texcode>
Мама и Папа % Some Russian characters
\stoptext
</texcode>
== Russian (Cyrillic) fonts and Windows 1251 ==
The following example should work if you save your file in the Windows 1251 encoding:
<texcode>
\definetypeface [russian]
[rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a]
\definetypeface [swedish]
[rm] [serif] [latin-modern] [default] [encoding=texnansi]
\setupbodyfont[russian]
\starttext
Some russian text:
Там можно бстретить медбедей.
Some swedish text:
{\switchtobodyfont[swedish]D\"ar kan man m\"ota bj\"ornar.}
\stoptext
</texcode>
At least it works here with TeXLive 2004.
== Russian (Cyrillic) fonts and koi8-r (koi8r) ==
This is not done yet. Will be updated when it works.
== The python script ==
Ok, I am not a programmer, so this could probably be done in a cleaner way. However, it works for me.
<texcode>
#!/usr/bin/python
import os, string
# Set these paths to what they should be in your case
mapfile="/home/texlive2004/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-t2a.map"
encfile="cm-super-t2a.enc"
tfmoutdir="/home/texlive2004/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/cm-super/"
f=open(mapfile, 'r')
# First read a line that is a comment.
a=f.readline()
print a
# Loop over the rest of the lines
rest=f.readlines()
for currentline in rest:
splitspace=string.split(currentline," ")
tfmname=splitspace[0]
afmname=string.lower(splitspace[1])
commandtorun="afm2tfm " + afmname + ".afm -T " + encfile + " " + tfmoutdir + tfmname + ".tfm"
print "Running: " + commandtorun
os.popen(commandtorun)
f.close()
</texcode>
