Compatibility Issues with Windows 7 and the Russian Keyboard (v. 4.03) Cyrillic 2000 Font Program

[Don Livingston]

Dear Dr. Vanchu,

I noted your request for help on SEELANGS and wish to offer my thoughts on
your situation with your Russian keyboards and Cyrillic Font 2000.  I am a
Senior Lecturer in Russian at Arizona State University and previously worked
as a document translator at Honeywell when putting American avionics on
Russian airframes; over the last sixteen years I have put together several
sets of keyboards for Russian with accents for various operating systems. 
In short, I have worked with avionics documentation and Russian and accents.

My thought is this.  If your documents are saved in common document formats
(MS Word, Excel, etc.), then your issues will be rapidly solvable, assuming
that the Cyrillic fonts you worked with were reasonably compliant with
character encoding standards.  Nowadays there is a Unicode standard for
acute accents that is well supported by almost all document formats and
operating systems.  There are quite a few keyboards available that can
support inserting vowels, including my freely available “Russian for
Gringos” keyboards at http://www.public.asu.edu/~deliving/resources/index.html.

If you would like me to look over any of your non-sensitive documents with
accent issues, feel free to contact me off the list and I'll analyze them
with you to find an optimal solution.

Warmest wishes, Don Livingston.

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