another cyrillic keyboard mystery

[ben franklin]

Just another appeal from a very low-level computer user, for information on 
how to either email in Cyrillic alphabet, or write in the MSWord program in 
Cyrillic, or both.  I found some discussion in your archive on both, but it 
was over my head, or perhaps i didn't find all of it.

Thanks in advance!

John Leyzorek


>From: Anne Ingram <ami2f at VIRGINIA.EDU>
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>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] another cyrillic keyboard mystery
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:15:21 -0500
>
>Assuming your computer is running Windows 2000 or XP, the culprit is 
>probably Windows File Protection.  Windows deems certain files critical 
>(such as .dll files), and if one of those files is replaced using an 
>unapproved method or removed, it will silently restore the previous file 
>from its hidden cache.
>
>Anne Ingram
>
>Jules Levin wrote:
>>Some time ago I appealed for help in restoring Russian to my MSWord 
>>processor, which had mysteriously disappeared
>>overnite.  I got several suggestions, which were pessimistic or 
>>challenging enough for me to procrastinate the problem.
>>However, recently an opportunity has come up where I really need Russian 
>>capability, so I again looked into the situation.
>>And amazingly, I was able to again acquire Russian capability (don't ask 
>>me what I did...).
>>But what I got was the Russian Russian keyboard, not the Student/phonetic 
>>keyboard, which I cherish.
>>Then I noticed in an overlooked corner of my desktop a folder KBDRUPH, and 
>>sure enough, it contained KBDRUPH.dll.
>>I inserted the latter into C:/1386, where by the way I found KBDRU1.dll 
>>and KBDRU.dll.
>>I changed names so that the phonetic keyboard was renamed KBDRU.dll.  But 
>>it didn't help--when I restarted MSWord 2003
>>(and MSWord 2000--I have both), the keyboard layout remained standard, not 
>>phonetic.
>>I then moved the renamed files out of C:/1386 completely, leaving only the 
>>student keyboard, now named KBDRU.dll.
>>Again, only the standard keyboard appeared.
>>Then, just for the heck of it, I removed KBDRU.dll from 1386 also.  And 
>>again, I got the standard RUSSIAN keyboard functioning
>>normally!!!
>>So what is going on???
>>I am truly puzzled by all this.  And I have been using student keyboards 
>>almost since wordprocessing with cyrillic was possible.
>>Jules Levin   
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>Instructional Technology Advisor, Instructional Technology Group
>Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
>University of Virginia
>ami2f at virginia.edu
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