Solutions to Language & Encoding Problems

translate http://www.forth.org.ru to English (favours Javascript)
on-line Cyrillic-to-Latin converter:
usually unrecognized words are loan words, you can understand their meaning by looking at their Latin transliteration.
view German FIG pages in English (template=General)
view German FIG pages in English (template=Computer, maybe some day this link will work)
view German FIG pages in Russian (template=Computer)
(On 11.09.2001 I managed to view the German FIG pages in English with Lynx; now, when you read this, the web version of PROMT could change. -- mlg)

PROMT: on-line translation of text, web pages and e-mail.

Although www.translate.ru relies on Javascript, you can still use it without Javascript by assembling the request by hands:
http://www.translate.ru/rus/url/tran_url.php?direction=re&template=General&autotranslate=true&url=URL
http://www.translate.ru/eng/url/tran_url.php?direction=re&template=Computer&autotranslate=true&url=URL
Directions: er fr gr re rf rg ef fe eg ge fg gf es se; e=English, f=French, r=Russian, g=German, s=Spanish; for example, "re" stands for Russian-->English
The word "template" above should be read as "lexis".

Note: there is a "translate" button in the right column of the RuFIG main page.


English and Russian

About the Cyrillic encoding / про кодировку / npo kogupoBky / pro kodirovku

  Search www.dictionary.com for     in 
Go to: www.dictionary.com for "Translator", "Word of the Day", "Ask Doctor Dictionary", etc.
check www.dictionary.com's list of other online dictionaries

 RU Updated link! Новый Большой Англо-Русский Словарь on-line -- трёхтомный словарь НБАРС под редакцией проф. Э.М.Медниковой и акад. Ю.Д.Апресяна (250 000 словарных входов, 2 300 000 английских и русских слов). Переводит в обе стороны! Требует Javascript'а и автоматической загрузки картинок.
 EN Updated link! The famous three-volume "New Comprehensive English-Russian Dictionary" on-line. It is the most comprehensive and contemporary English-Russian dictionary in the world (250,000 entries, 1,300,000 Russian and 1,000,000 English words). Translates in both directions! Requires Javascript and automatic image loading.

 RU Англо-русский словарь по компьютерам (информатике) (требуются фреймы) (homepage).
 EN The Comprehensive Russian Computer Dictionary (requires frames) (its homepage).
Quick & glitchy (without frames) search now for
(искать там, с глюками из-за отсутствия фреймов)
www.russian-dictionary.org's Russian Language Materials Computer Dictionaries

www.translate.ru
Бесплатный online-переводчик компании ПРОМТ: английский, русский, немецкий, французский, испанский и итальянский языки. JavaScript-конвертер кодировок кириллицы.
PROMT's FREE multilanguage online translator: English, Russian, French, German and Spanish
www.promt.ru -- just for completeness

www.ets.ru The Polyglossum dictionary (free trial), the PARS translation system (?not for free?)
 RU Словари ЭТС
 EN ETS dictionaries
 RU POLYGLOSSUM v.1.80 скачать бесплатно
 EN POLYGLOSSUM v.1.80 free download

A good list of resources about LANGUAGES & TRANSLATION and its local copy just in case.

Dutch Dictionary Project: a lot of dictionaries to download for free. (English to and from other languages; quality is different for different languages, but Dutch is poor)

www.yourdictionary.com -- dictionaries for many languages. www.yourdictionary.com about Russian dictionaries, also an excerpt here.

Cyrillic Fonts and Keyboards & Russian Grammar at Bucknell University.


German

On-line German-to-English dictionary

See also other resources on this page.


Dutch

Dutch FIG: www.forth.hccnet.nl (To me, Dutch reads as German)
download an electronic Dutch dictionary
a small text/html Dutch dictionary
Integral Dutch Course -- Pronunciation & so on.
Dutch-English On-line Dictionary
www.allwords.com (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish)

More...

Eugene Toinov's index of dictionaries
Журнал "Спрос" о словарях

This page is maintained by Michael Gassanenko, homepage, e-mail: mlg [at] forth [dot] org.
Comments, suggestions, good links to resources are welcome.