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Language Solutions International
The Russian Language Experts
New England,  USA

E-mail	language@tiac.net
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In an attempt to somewhat increase our productivity in producing
Russian-typed texts and, at the same time, to somewhat reduce our staff's
suffering from hitting the wrong keys on the keyboards, we conducted an
extensive survey on the issue of "russifying" the computer keyboard.  We
were, of course, familiar with Cyrillic keytops (labels, stickers), but
simply didn't want to mess with them.  So, we approached specialists in
different Russian-related areas with the following question:

WE ARE LOOKING FOR A RUSSIAN  KEYBOARD OVERLAY CONTAINING CYRILLIC LABELS
AND COVERING THE ENTIRE KEYBOARD AS A WHOLE PIECE.  THEY EXIST IN EUROPE,
WE ARE TOLD, BUT WE ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL IN FINDING THEM HERE IN THE U.S. 
ANY IDEA?

We received many replies, of which the most informative were the following
messages:

> Each time I buy a new computer I have to glue paper letters to the keys.
> I have never come across the overlays you mention. Sorry about that!
(gluing paper letters sounded promising, still we were not sure we'd like
it)

OR:

> The one I know about is Apple's Cyrillic language kit, but it's not a
> one-piece cover, just individual stickers. Sorry!
(that was better, but still:)

OR:

> No, I haven't seen them here but you might try to call IBM or some other
> big company that dopes business with Russian. Try Sun also.
(that was already a lead:)

OR:

> Thank you for visiting our site.  We recommend that you verify the
> product description and specifications for compatibility with your
system,
> applications, and goals.
(that was informative, yet somewhat different from what we expected)

OR:

> Word Perfect Corporation, when they owned the WordPerfect program, had
> Russian modules and included a sheet of stickers for the individual keys.
> Corel, in Canada, is now the owner of WordPerfect. You may want to check
> with them.
(close:)

OR:

> We do carry Russian keytop overlays which attach directly to your
> character keys.  They are transparent with the Russian character printed
in
> the lower right corner allowing the existing legend to remain visible. 
The
> overlays do not cover the keyboard in one piece.  Some customers have
> purchased a protective cover for their keyboard and then attached the
> overlays to the protective cover so that it is removable.

This one eventually led us to yet another company where we seam to have
found what we have been looking for, namely: FlexShield Keyboard Protector
plus Cyrillic keytops to be attached to that polyurethane cover:

 			HOOLEON Corporation
 			1-800-937-1337
 			Fax 1-520-634-4620

We have worked on this finder project so hard that there is no way we can
keep this valuable information to ourselves.  So you are welcome to use it.

John Cluster
Dept. Mgr
Language Solutions Int'l