UK keyboard help

[ulvesang.livejournal.com]

Em, I'm starting Russian and Swedish classes, and want to type (mostly cyrillic) easier. But I've only learned to use U.S. and German keyboards well (U.S. International = God!!!) and don't know how to configure a UK keyboard at all! In WinXP, I have the choice of "United Kingdom" or "United Kingdom: Extended". Both let me use acute accents with [AltGr], but when I try to install Russian, German, Spanish, Swedish, etc. it just keeps going back to English with the accents and other nonsense in [AltGr].

I'm a bit nervous: I really don't want to learn to type ALL the cyrillic letters by numerics!!!

(cross-posted to linguaphiles)

Comments

[jenkina.livejournal.com]

You can use www.translit.ru

[gordin.livejournal.com]

It's easy, but leaves you with a lot of writing problems. Not good for learning imho.

[clownshoes.livejournal.com]

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/kbd_e.htm

[rowan-leigh.livejournal.com]

I found those pages remarkably useful: thankyou!

[dimon37.livejournal.com]

my favorite Russian keyboard layout can be found at http://www.siber.com/sib/russify
The layout is mostly fonetic, so it is very easy to learn.

[abat.livejournal.com]

excuse me, but was does [AltGr] means?

[freedomcry.livejournal.com]

The right-hand-side [Alt] key is sometimes marked like that.

[mithgol.livejournal.com]

There is a free-of-charge Microsoft's add-on to WinXP called MUI (which is abbrev. for multi-language user interface or something like that). It could help.