Hi,
I have a question about typing cyrillic letters on my keyboard. I have an IBM Thinkpad with Windows XP. It has the possibility of using many different alphabets & I know how to turn them on and off, install them etc. via language bar and control panel. My problem is key placement with Russian cyrillic. For example, I can type in Serbian cyrillic and the keys are all in the same plays e.g. when I hit my English "D," the Serbian letter rendered is Д, "I" is И and "N" is Н. Which makes typing in Serbian really easy. I'm assuming that the keyboards made in Serbia have that layout but I could be wrong. However in Cyrillic Russian the order is not the English order but the Russian keyboard order which, as all of you probably know, goes "У К Е З В Ы" where we have E, R, T, P, D, S etc. So it's insanely difficult to type in Cyrillic on this machine. I know that on the Apple laptops there is an option for Cyrillic letters in English layout so that they "correspond" (I don't know how to put it more clearly) but I have looked and looked in all the language menus, alphabets etc. and it seems to me that there is no way to use the Cyrillic alphabet and have the keys where they would correspond to the English department e.g. З Т И А П where Z T I A P are on English keyboard.
I know that stickers you can put on your keyboard exist to make this easier but I kind of want something less permanent because I type more in Serbian cyrillic than in Russian.
Sorry for this complicated problem. In sum, is there any way around this? An alphabet I can download or something?
Thank you.
I have a question about typing cyrillic letters on my keyboard. I have an IBM Thinkpad with Windows XP. It has the possibility of using many different alphabets & I know how to turn them on and off, install them etc. via language bar and control panel. My problem is key placement with Russian cyrillic. For example, I can type in Serbian cyrillic and the keys are all in the same plays e.g. when I hit my English "D," the Serbian letter rendered is Д, "I" is И and "N" is Н. Which makes typing in Serbian really easy. I'm assuming that the keyboards made in Serbia have that layout but I could be wrong. However in Cyrillic Russian the order is not the English order but the Russian keyboard order which, as all of you probably know, goes "У К Е З В Ы" where we have E, R, T, P, D, S etc. So it's insanely difficult to type in Cyrillic on this machine. I know that on the Apple laptops there is an option for Cyrillic letters in English layout so that they "correspond" (I don't know how to put it more clearly) but I have looked and looked in all the language menus, alphabets etc. and it seems to me that there is no way to use the Cyrillic alphabet and have the keys where they would correspond to the English department e.g. З Т И А П where Z T I A P are on English keyboard.
I know that stickers you can put on your keyboard exist to make this easier but I kind of want something less permanent because I type more in Serbian cyrillic than in Russian.
Sorry for this complicated problem. In sum, is there any way around this? An alphabet I can download or something?
Thank you.
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Date: 2008-09-10 11:06 pm (UTC)