Windows XP and allowing for more than one Russian keyboard

[Danko Sipka]

Microsoft has a free-of-charge application which allows you to create custom
keyboards. You can pick it up from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx

Best,


Danko Sipka
Research Associate Professor and Acting Director
Critical Languages Institute (http://cli.la.asu.edu)
Arizona State University
E-mail: Danko.Sipka at asu.edu
Web: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka
/until fall 2005/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Denner" <mdenner at STETSON.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Windows XP and allowing for more than one Russian
keyboard


>
> Fontboard does the trick (in Google, type "Fontboard Russian"). It's a
great program, though I would have chosen some different phonetic
correlations (h=x, x=ж, inexplicably the semicolon=ч -- but привыкнешь).
>
> Run the program, and follow the setup directions included (they're clear
and concise).
>
> Open up the "detail" option within the language option within the
"Regional and Language" task, then click "add" and select the Russian
Typewriter option. You'll now be able to choose either the "real" Russian
(советская) or the ASDF variant.
>
> If you want to be able to switch among languages and keyboards by using
keystrokes, select "key settings" and customize away. My XP is set up so
that the first time I hit "alt-shift" the regular Russian (typewriter)
keyboard is applied, then I hit it again and I get the "ASDF" keyboard (aka
phonetic), then I hit it again and I'm back to the Latin/English.
>
> mad
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brewer, Michael [mailto:brewerm at U.LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU]
> Sent: Fri 5/7/2004 5:00 PM
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Cc:
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Windows XP and allowing for more than one Russian
keyboard
>
>
>
> All,
>
>
>
> Does anyone out there know of any workarounds for Windows XP to allow for
> access to multiple Russian keyboards (a standard one and a phonetic one)
for
> Windows XP?  We were able to load two keyboards for Windows 2000 (so that
> those in our library who wanted to use one or the other could choose).  I
am
> told by our computer folks that with Windows XP, they have not been able
to
> do this (they can only load the standard keyboard.  I expect they could
also
> write over this with the phonetic one, but that still only allows for one
> keyboard).  They are having a similar problem with our phonetic and
standard
> Arabic keyboards in Windows XP.  Has anyone out there figured out how do
> allow for 2 Russian keyboards?  I have been told that Microsoft has been
> contacted and has been no help at all.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> mb
>
>
>
> Michael Brewer
>
> German & Slavic Studies and Media Arts Librarian
>
> University of Arizona Library, A210
>
> 1510 E. University
>
> P.O. Box 210055
>
> Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
>
> Fax 520.621.9733
>
> Voice 520.621.9919
>
> brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu
>
>
>
>
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