CYRILLIC FONT PROBLEMS

[Larry McLellan]

I just bought a new iMAC and have been forced to deal with more
Cyrillic font problems.  A technical advisor on campus has several
questions and I am posting these to the list in the hopes that someone
will be able to provide some assistance.

Please respond off-line to <mclellan at gss.ucsb.edu>.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Larry McLellan
Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, UCSB

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Larry has been using the old QWERTY keyboard layout that came with the
old Apple Cyrillic Language Kit (I mean OLD).  It had the Russian flag
icon with the tiny diamond shape embedded into it.  This old keyboard
has a layout different from the so-called Apple Standard
(AATSEEL/QWERTY) that is available on current websites.

He'd love to get that old layout on OS X 10.2.6 but there are problems:

1.  Apple didn't document this old layout and no one seems to know
anything about it.  It's not clear who authored it or who was behind
it.  Anyone know?

2.  The old cyrillic language kit qwerty keyboard layout was NOT stored
as a standard keyboard layout resource in the system file of the older
OS (7-9).  Had that been the case it would have been easy to simply
drag the keyboard layout out of the system file (system 7-9) and add
the appropriate suffix and re-install it in OSX.  However, the
resources for this old QWERTY keyboard layout is nowhere to be found.
It probably was hard-coded into some other system resource and is
unavailable to the user unless you know where to look, and you know how
to "capture" it - if that's even possible.  (Obviously, Apple changed
its approach to the cyrillic keyboard.)

3.  None of the newer layouts are the same.

So...

Does anyone have access to this OLDER qwerty keyboard?  If so, do you
know if and where the keyboard resource may be obtained?  Can it be
made to work in OSX 10.2.6?

The alternative is scary:  It means that all the documents created with
the old qwerty keyboard may need to be remapped.  If this isn't
possible, or if there aren't any converter programs which understand
the old qwerty layout then all the old documents may be useless!  Also,
it means having to learn a new layout.

Does anyone have this resource or know anything about solving this
problem? We have found keyboard layouts and fonts, but just not that
old standard keyboard layout which Apple plugged and then abandoned.

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