Test page for Academic Russian Character Sets

1. Use your operating system's method to install the font that you want to test.
2. Open a word processor and make sure that the font is installed.
3. Start the browser and configure it to use the font that you want to test for the User Defined encoding (aka "character set" or "alphabet").
4. Select the User Defined encoding and click Reload, if necessary. Use the Font Size command (whatever it's called in your browser) to select a really large point size of the font, e.g. 14 or larger.
5. Compare the shapes of a few distinct-looking letters in your word processor window to the same characters in the browser window until you're certain that the shapes are identical; this is the only way to make sure that you're testing the right font.
6. Compare every symbol in table A-Sample to the corresponding symbols in table A-HTML, below. (It may be convenient to open some tables in a separate window; use the New Window command on the browser's File menu.) Tables A contain the standard portion of the character set.
7. Compare every symbol in table B-Sample to the corresponding symbols in tables B-HTML and B-JavaScript, below.
8. Compare similar-looking letters in tables A-HTML and B-HTML; for stylistic unity, the English "a" must look exactly like the Russian "a" and so on.
9. When examining the font for readability, be sure to test it at the 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 resolutions, including the Small Fonts and Large Fonts variations, where available (Windows only). Test at least two point sizes (10 and 12) in each screen resolution.
10. Remember that fonts may behave differently under Windows 95 and NT Service Pack 3 on the one hand, and Windows 98 and NT Service Pack 4 and 5 on the other.
11. Print some text sample from your word processor to make sure the font prints well. Printing from the browser may not be sufficient; I've seen a font that wrapped lines in the middle of Russian words, when printed from a word processor.

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