Kazakh Internet Font Kit

I have come up with a very tentative encoding for transmitting Kazakh across the internet. It is a superset of KOI8-R, which means it is compatible with most Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian documents on the web. It should probably be extended to support other Turkic languages in cyrillic script. Mail me at aeulenbe@indiana.edu if you would like to receive the latest news on internet and Macintosh Turkic encoding standards and fonts (both latin and cyrillic).

The font kit includes a ten-point bitmap version of Courier and a keyboard resource so you can type in Kazakh (it's actually an ARTSEEL "student" Russian keyboard with the extra Kazakh letters accessible through the option key. Just download the two files and drag them into your system folder. To select the Kazakh keyboard, use the Keyboards control panel or the Keyboard menu if you have one.

Important!!

  1. In order for the font to work with internet applications, you must set your "encoding" to "none" (NCSA Telnet) or "MacRoman" (Netscape), as well as selecting the font.

  2. In order to type in Kazakh you must select the Kazakh keyboard.
  3. This Kazakh font standard is actually not a standard! Use with discretion!
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