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[Johanna Laakso]

Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:57:55 +0300
To: ura-list at helsinki.fi
From: Jorma Luutonen <luutonen at utu.fi>
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Cc: joni at estradi.com
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Dear Ura-list members,

I have two font problems and a bit of information:

1. I have a problem concerning the FUPA (Finno-Ugric Phonetic Alphabet)
fonts in a PC computer. Our university has practically stopped technical
and other support the Macintosh computers in our university, which made me
to consider to change from Macintosh to PC.  In my Mac I have used the
Fluralic (FUPA) font produced by JL-Types ky. (In our department some other
Macintosh FUPA fonts made by The Research Institute for the Languages of
Finland are also in use.) I asked the seller of Fluralic font
(http://www.estradi.com/; e-mail joni at estradi.com) if there is a version of
Fluralic for PC, but the answer was negative. My question is: how do you
others write FUPA fonts in a PC? Or are there any other researchers of
Finno-Ugric languages who use PC?

2. The other problem concerns the locations of the Cyrillic letters in the
keyboard. I have used the Smolensk cyrillic font of JL-Types in which the
cyrillic letters are mainly under the same keys as in the Finnish (or other
western) keyboard. As I usually write with 10 fingers and not looking at
the keys using a Russian keyboard with its strange key order would be a
nightmare to me! Are there any Smolensk-like fonts in the PC environment?
How do you change the locations of the letters in a keyboard in MS Word or
MS Office? Are there any other cyrillic fonts that have the special letters
used in some Finno-Ugric languages (e.g. Udmurt, Mari).

Information: The next version of the commercial scanned text recognition
program FineReader (http://www.abbyy.ru/) will be able to recognize Mari
and Udmurt among the great number of languages it is able to handle.

JL
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