Transliterated Windows Keyboard for Windows

[Michael Denner]

Elizabeth,

There are many ways to skin the proverbial Cyrillic cat. My latest preference -- for ease, cost and universality -- is Fontboard, a freeware program that maps a homophonic keyboard onto your existing Latin one. It's not exactly what I would call an ideal layout -- for instance, the Cyrillic х is mapped to the Latin "h," but it's strengths are:
1) ease of installation
2) cross-platform functionality (I have it currently installed on NT, 98 and 95 without any problems)
3) it's easier than the old-fashioned way (manually replacing .kbd files, which you can't do in NT anyway)

You'll still have to install multilingual support on your computers, but you're already doing that, right? 

To find Fontboard, go to Google. 

mad

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Dr. Michael A. Denner
Russian Studies Program
Stetson University
Campus Box 8361
DeLand, FL 32724
386.822.7381 (department)
386.822.7265 (direct line)
386.822.7380 (fax)
http://www.stetson.edu/~mdenner
http://russianpoetry.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth J. Pyatt [mailto:ejp10 at PSU.EDU] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 2:52 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] Transliterated Windows Keyboard for Windows

Hello:

I'm an instructional designer (and linguist) in search of some
technical advice for computing in Russian.

The Russian department here is asking if there is a Russian
keyboard/input locale which does transliterated Cyrillic (i.e.
pushing "S" gets you Cyrillic "C", "S" gets you Cyrillic "P", etc).

Is there one that's available? Shareware or freeware preferred, but
we can do commercial.

Also, if Microsoft already has one, please let me know. I didn't
think it did, but maybe I missed something.

Many thanks in advance

Elizabeth Pyatt
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