Keyboard Driver for Windows 95

[David Powelstock]

Hi, all,

It's me again with computer questions.  So many people were so helpful last
time that I thought I'd try my next question out.

One of the nice things about Windows 95 is that it has built-in support for
a number of languages, including Slavic and East European ones.  This
support is at the level of Windows itself, which means that it is available
in all Windows applications simply by clicking on the tiny "Languages" icon
in the task bar that appears in all apps.  Microsoft includes fonts and
keyboard drivers, although you can of course use any TT fonts you might
have, provided it matches IBM code page 1251 for Cyrillic. This is all great
- no more silly add-on packages.  There is one problem, however.  For
Russian, Microsoft includes only a Russian-typewriter keyboard layout,
whereas I think I speak for many colleagues when I say that I use the
"AATSEEL Student" layout, the one that matches characters to Latin letters
on the keyboard by homophonic and visual correspondence: Latin 'r' types
Russian  [r], 'y' types Russian [u], etc.  (In fact I know a couple of
Russian emigrees who only use the AATSEEL layout!)

Is there anyone out there who knows either (1)how to edit the Russian layout
Microsoft includes (is there a utility for this?); or (2) where one can get
a new Russian keyboard file for Windows 95 that uses the AATSEEL layout.

I'm willing to serve as a filter for this info, so send your responses to
me, at ' d-powelstock at uchicago.edu', and I'll post the winning solution to
the list, if there is one.

Incidentally, I haven't fully processed all the "How to use Cyrillic fonts
in Netscape/Mosaic" answers yet, but for PCs, it seems that you only need
TrueType fonts using the KOI-8 Alternative (not the KOI-8 Basic) code page.
Once again, thanks to everyone who generously responded to that query.

Best,
David Powelstock
Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Chicago
1130 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL  60637
(O)   312-702-0035
(Dpt) 312-702-8033 (msg)
(H)   312-324-5842 (msg)