In some of the early versions of OS X, one has to run a custom installation from the original install disc, choosing International options for the language/region support desired. With OS X 10.5 - the cat called “Leopard” - multilingual support is installed by default.

Therefore, many current versions of OS X applications will already properly display Cyrillic text. For example, with a current web browser, such as the current version of Apple’s own and very elegant Safari, most web sites utilzing a non-Latin character set should display properly.

Internationalization

One still must enable the Internationalization menu:
- Open “System Preferences” under the Apple menu.

- Choose the “Personal:International” pane.

1. -Choose the “Input Menu” pane.
   

2. -Enable the languages and keyboards of choice.
   

I would recommend enabling the Character Palette and Keyboard viewer, as these are useful for selecting characters, and learning the keyboard layout of international character sets.

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