Cyrillic Font/Phonetic Keyboard question

[Stu]

I have been having a problem with using Cyrillic fonts and the Russian
Phonetic keyboard input (MS Word 2004, Mac OS 10.4.11). Whenever I am
using Russian Phonetic keyboard, and I attempt to switch to a font
that I know contains the Cyrillic characters (e.g. Verdana, Palatino,
Helvetica, etc.), it always reverts immediately back to Times New
Roman. This is the only regular font that it appears to allow me to
input in using the Russian Phonetic keyboard. (The old CY fonts (e.g.
Times CY, Geneva CY, etc.) do work, but I haven't had to use them in
quite some time, since I believe the unicode characters are within a
number of the common fonts.)

This is only a problem in MS Word, and it is only a problem with input
-- I can select a block of Cyrillic text and change the font without a
problem. I also believe that it has cropped up relatively recently,
perhaps with one of the autoupdates? Or did I change a setting
without realizing it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Stu

[I am having the same problem as an earlier poster (http://
groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse_thread/
thread/e7092465a4867d52/). I would have replied to that post, and
tried (being new to Google groups), but it appears that it is past the
time I can reply within the post.]

 

[Curt Laird]

Hi Stu,
We are looking into this one. I hope to have an answer for you soon. Feel
free to contact me directly for further correspondence. My e-mail is below.

I might have some questions for you shortly.

Thanks,

Curt

I have been having a problem with using Cyrillic fonts and the Russian
Phonetic keyboard input (MS Word 2004, Mac OS 10.4.11). Whenever I am
using Russian Phonetic keyboard, and I attempt to switch to a font
that I know contains the Cyrillic characters (e.g. Verdana, Palatino,
Helvetica, etc.), it always reverts immediately back to Times New
Roman. This is the only regular font that it appears to allow me to
input in using the Russian Phonetic keyboard. (The old CY fonts (e.g.
Times CY, Geneva CY, etc.) do work, but I haven't had to use them in
quite some time, since I believe the unicode characters are within a
number of the common fonts.)

This is only a problem in MS Word, and it is only a problem with input
-- I can select a block of Cyrillic text and change the font without a
problem. I also believe that it has cropped up relatively recently,
perhaps with one of the autoupdates? Or did I change a setting
without realizing it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Stu

[I am having the same problem as an earlier poster (http://
groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse_thread/
thread/e7092465a4867d52/). I would have replied to that post, and
tried (being new to Google groups), but it appears that it is past the
time I can reply within the post.]

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[Paul]

Hello,
I'm having Stu's problem (in Word:Mac 2004 on Mac OS X 10.5.4 and 10:3.9)
with the phonetic Cyrillic as well. Plus an even more annoying one: every
time I interrupt typing Cyrillic, to use the arrow keys, a formatting option,
or whatever, the language/keyboard input selector immediately returns to my
default Dutch keyboard. No other application behaves like that, except for
Word. It really drives me mad, as I'm a professional Dutch/Russian
translator, often working in Russian.
Can Microsoft do anything about this?
Thanks,

Paul, Holland

 

[John McGhie]

The post above yours was from the Microsoft Software Development Engineer in
Test who is responsible for Word. They are examining this to see what it
would take to fix it.

Cheers

Hello,
I'm having Stu's problem (in Word:Mac 2004 on Mac OS X 10.5.4 and 10:3.9)
with the phonetic Cyrillic as well. Plus an even more annoying one: every
time I interrupt typing Cyrillic, to use the arrow keys, a formatting option,
or whatever, the language/keyboard input selector immediately returns to my
default Dutch keyboard. No other application behaves like that, except for
Word. It really drives me mad, as I'm a professional Dutch/Russian
translator, often working in Russian.
Can Microsoft do anything about this?
Thanks,

Paul, Holland

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[matess]

hi,

i am having the same problem, but with the slovak input language.

martin

Hi Stu,
We are looking into this one. I hope to have an answer for you soon. Feel
free to contact me directly for further correspondence. My e-mail is below.

I might have some questions for you shortly.

Thanks,

Curt

I have been having a problem with using Cyrillic fonts and the Russian
Phonetic keyboard input (MS Word 2004, Mac OS 10.4.11). Whenever I am
using Russian Phonetic keyboard, and I attempt to switch to a font
that I know contains the Cyrillic characters (e.g. Verdana, Palatino,
Helvetica, etc.), it always reverts immediately back to Times New
Roman. This is the only regular font that it appears to allow me to
input in using the Russian Phonetic keyboard. (The old CY fonts (e.g.
Times CY, Geneva CY, etc.) do work, but I haven't had to use them in
quite some time, since I believe the unicode characters are within a
number of the common fonts.)

This is only a problem in MS Word, and it is only a problem with input
-- I can select a block of Cyrillic text and change the font without a
problem. I also believe that it has cropped up relatively recently,
perhaps with one of the autoupdates? Or did I change a setting
without realizing it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Stu

[I am having the same problem as an earlier poster (http://
groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse_thread/
thread/e7092465a4867d52/). I would have replied to that post, and
tried (being new to Google groups), but it appears that it is past the
time I can reply within the post.]

--
curt:laird
software development engineer in test
microsoft macbu | word:mac
mailto:[email protected] (remove ³ONLINE² to send me mail)

Sent with pride using Entourage 2008!

This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[John McGhie]

Try switching off the preference "Match font with keyboard."

You may have better success with that piece of stupidity disabled.

Cheers

hi,

i am having the same problem, but with the slovak input language.

martin

Hi Stu,
We are looking into this one. I hope to have an answer for you soon. Feel
free to contact me directly for further correspondence. My e-mail is below.

I might have some questions for you shortly.

Thanks,

Curt

I have been having a problem with using Cyrillic fonts and the Russian
Phonetic keyboard input (MS Word 2004, Mac OS 10.4.11). Whenever I am
using Russian Phonetic keyboard, and I attempt to switch to a font
that I know contains the Cyrillic characters (e.g. Verdana, Palatino,
Helvetica, etc.), it always reverts immediately back to Times New
Roman. This is the only regular font that it appears to allow me to
input in using the Russian Phonetic keyboard. (The old CY fonts (e.g.
Times CY, Geneva CY, etc.) do work, but I haven't had to use them in
quite some time, since I believe the unicode characters are within a
number of the common fonts.)

This is only a problem in MS Word, and it is only a problem with input
-- I can select a block of Cyrillic text and change the font without a
problem. I also believe that it has cropped up relatively recently,
perhaps with one of the autoupdates? Or did I change a setting
without realizing it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Stu

[I am having the same problem as an earlier poster (http://
groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse_thread/
thread/e7092465a4867d52/). I would have replied to that post, and
tried (being new to Google groups), but it appears that it is past the
time I can reply within the post.]

--
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software development engineer in test
microsoft macbu | word:mac
mailto:[email protected] (remove ©øONLINE©÷ to send me mail)

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