KOI8-R in Win95 Netscape

Netscape pre-v3.0b3 tuning

There is semi-correct way now to tune new Netscape (starting from 2.0) using User Defined document encoding, but Netscape use wrong mail/news Subject font for this encoding, bug the Netscape Team for it. BTW, it is impossible to specify MIME charset name used by User Defined encoding, so if you are a programmer and understand this issue, please bug the Netscape Team to add MIME charset name to User Defined properties.

Following procedure assumes that you already install KOI8-R fonts by regular Windows way or use alternative solution (GDI.EXE KOI8-R fix).

For Netscape v2.01/v2.02 (still hacking Latin2 encoding due to wrong Subject font in User Defined encoding):
1. In Options|General Preferences|Fonts|For the Encoding box set Latin1 encoding. Choose proportional and fixed KOI8-R fonts using corresponding Choose Font button. If you not do this step, you will unable to see standard KOI8-R pages with <META> tag charset or HTTP header charset, see my How to create Russian HTML documents in KOI8-R section for details.
2. In For the Encoding box set Latin2 encoding. Choose proportional and fixed KOI8-R fonts using corresponding Choose Font button. If you not do this step, you will unable to see non-standard KOI8-R pages without <META> tag charset and HTTP header charset.
3. In Options|Document Encoding choose Western (Latin2) encoding and save options after this step.
  WARNING: Due to hacking nature of this method you have wrong MIME charset in Mail/News messages: ISO-8859-2 instead of KOI8-R, it can confuse MIME-capable Mail/News readers.
WARNING: In v2.02 you can't read/write Russian Subject: in News/Mail composition window, it is known bug.
For Netscape v1.*:
1. Go to Options|Preferences|Fonts menu. Add proportional KOI8-R font using corresponding Choose Font button. Then try to add fixed KOI8-R font in the same way. If this step fails, you need to find another fixed font with Monospaced flag set or follow this instructions. As alternative solution (if you already apply GDI.EXE KOI8-R fix), you can use standard Win95 fonts and choose Russian (KOI8-R) from Script list instead of adding KOI8-R fonts.