Mac OS 10.6 and Russian keyboard layouts

[Melissa Smith]

MAC offers you the phonetic keyboard as an option; it was too easy to 
be believed!
 
On 8/24/10 1:33 AM, Steven Clancy wrote:
> Dear Ben and SEELANGS,
> 
> I upgraded my home desktop Mac last summer and am currently setting up 
a new laptop, so I've dealt with the same issues in Snow Leopard.
> 
> For some reason, keyboards that have worked for more than a decade 
(I've been using a phonetic keyboard that toggles between 
Latin/Cyrillic when caps lock is on/off in one form or another since 
about 1995) don't work in all software packages anymore (you get the 
greying out when they aren't available). It's a bit of a pain, but one 
can switch over to a new keyboard layout and get used to it or take 
steps to make things work the old way. There are multiple built-in 
options these days, although one tends to like what one has been using 
for a while.
> 
> The one I've long used for Cyrillic is Matvey Palchuk's 
Russian-AppleStd with the toggle feature between Latin/Cyrillic, very 
useful, especially when you're often making things for pedagogical 
purposes with lots of mixed language in it. This keyboard has been 
updated (http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/rusmac/), so it works 
with Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, but it no longer has the toggle feature. 
However, it's not such a big loss as you can now easily switch between 
the two last used keyboards with the keystroke command+space bar. This 
is just as easy, sometimes even easier than the old caps lock system, 
since  you can then actually use caps lock for all caps as well.
> 
> But if you have old keyboards that you want to update, there is a free 
program called Ukelele, that lets you modify or create keyboard layouts 
for Macs. This is another option to make something or adapt something 
to work in Snow Leopard. I had this problem with my Czech and Polish 
layouts, also about 15 years old, and I've been able to get by with 
these solutions, keeping things the same as I was used to and prefer.
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele
> 
> in some ways, it's amazing that the same keyboards worked for so long, 
even before the unicode age, yet still worked fine in a unicode 
compatible way and alongside multiple OS upgrades through the years.
> 
> Good luck, hope this helps,
> 
> Steven
> 
> 
> Steven Clancy
> Senior Lecturer in Russian and Slavic Linguistics
> Academic Director, Center for the Study of Languages
> Director, Slavic Language Program
> 
> University of Chicago
> Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
> 
> 
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Melissa T. Smith, Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and 
Literatures  
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
Tel: (330)941-3462

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