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

[Gene Shklar]

You may have to replace the keyboard software you've been using. 
Keyboard drivers, and other system-level software that is tightly 
coupled to the operating system, that work under XP do not install or 
work under Vista or Windows 7.

If you need the capability under Windows 7 to input and print Russian 
text showing stressed vowels, from Word and other Microsoft Office 
applications, you may want to adopt the Russian phonetic keyboard that I 
developed. And you will not need to install or use any special fonts --  
standard Times Roman and Arial, among others, will work just fine.

I'll describe this phonetic keyboard and the link to its documentation 
in a separate email to the seelangs list.

Gene

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[BARRIOS TECHNOLOGY]" 
<anthony.j.vanchu at NASA.GOV>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 11:43 AM
Subject: Compatibility Issues with Windows 7 and the Russian Keyboard 
(v. 4.03) Cyrillic 2000 Font Program


Dear SEELANGtsy,

For over 10 years, we have been using the Russian Keyboard, v. 4.03, 
part of the Cyrillic 2000 font program from Fingertip Software, to 
produce materials for our students in Russian with stressed vowels.

The number of documents in our archive is quite sizeable, given our need 
to produce material with specific space-related content for our 
students, primarily astronauts who will be flying aboard the Russian 
Soyuz spacecraft and who will undergo training in Russia (and in 
Russian) on the Soyuz and the Russian ISS (International Space Station) 
systems.

Recently, several of our instructors' computers have been upgraded form 
Windows XP to Windows 7 (though we're still using Office 2007), with the 
rest to follow.  What we have experienced thus far vis a vis the 
compatibility of the Cyrillic 2000 Russian Keyboard with Windows 7 has 
been disheartening to say the least.  This has included the following:

.       Font program will not execute (load) in Windows 7
.       Font program executes, but then shows as "disabled" when opened
.       Font program executes, but won't allow stressed vowels to be 
typed
.       Font program executes, but documents previously written using 
this program display word stress only on vowels common to English and 
Russian

The obvious solution-contacting the program's developer, Fingertip 
Software, is unfortunately not an option as they are no longer in 
operation.

While we are in the process of trying to fix this problem with the help 
of IT resources available to us here, I'm also turning to the SEELANGS 
community in the hope that

.       Someone else is using this font program, has encountered this 
problem when switching to Windows 7, and has found a work-around that 
they're willing to share
.       Someone might have suggestions or insights as to how we can 
solve this problem

Any assistance or ideas that anyone can offer, either on or off list, 
will be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks,
Tony Vanchu

Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu, Ph.D.
TechTrans International, Inc.
Director, JSC Language Education Center
Johnson Space Center
Houston, TX
(281) 483-0644

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