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For keyboard stickers, the best thing to do is to Google "Russian keyboard
stickers." You'll get links to a number of vendors and you can shop around for
price and type (e.g., color). They usually range in price from $12-$15 per set.
Many vendors give discounts for larger purchases. If your institution has a
regular computer refresh policy (we do here), it might be worth buying extra
because when th old keyboard goes, so do the stickers--they're really not
reusable.
We've gotten keyboard stickers before from a company based in Ireland, since
they actually had the best prices and were reliable. But we ordered some more
from them a month ago. Unfortunately, we've yet to get them and they've not be
responsive to our inquiries, so we're probably going to buy them from Fingertip
Software, located in San Antonio (www.cyrillic.com). BTW, Fingertip also makes
a product that will allow your faculty to prepare materials with stress marks
and allow for a number of different keyboard configurations (e.g., Russian
Standard, Student (homophonic), etc.)
I'm not really able to help with sending legible e-mails in Cyrillic, but I can
recommend that your faculty consult SEELANGS, a listserv for teachers of Slavic
and East European languages. There are a lot of computer savvy subscribers who
can help out if you posed questions in that forum. To join (it's free), go to
their website: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/~seelangs/
I believe there is also a way to search previous threads and you would most
likely be able to find something there that would help.
Hope this might help out some. And if you'd like to contact me directly, please
don't hesitate.
Best,
Tony Vanchu
Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu
Director, JSC Language Education Center
TechTrans International, Inc.
NASA Johnson Space Center
Houston, TX
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The faculty in my Russian department are interested in finding places to
purchase Russian keyboards, or stickers to put on English language
keyboards. Does anyone know of vendors online or better yet, stores that
sell them directly in the states? We are interested in purchasing them
ourselves but we also would like to better direct students when they ask
themselves where to get Russian keyboards or stickers.
Additionally, one of the faculty in my department told me she has had
problems sending emails back and forth in Russian with Mozilla
Thunderbird (our campus' main email client). Does anyone who types in
Russian have problems with Mozilla Thunderbird? Does anyone have other
suggestions for successfully emailing Russian?
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