R: [SEELANGS] Typist's Cyrillic Homophonic Keyboard

[Michael Trittipo]

2010/6/9 Gianpaolo Gandolfo <gianpaolo.gandolfo at fastwebnet.it>:
>        I have Windows XP home and I would like to type and read Word documents, and research on Google using words written in Cyrillic (as I do on my other computer).
> Does all this help to find a solution to my problem?

Yes.  That's much more focused.  Anne Marie Devlin's instructions
provide the basics. Of course, in XP, it depends just a bit on what
display of the control panel options you choose.  But in general, you
want to get from the Control Panel to the "Regional and Language
Options" panel.  (Depending on setup, there might be a "Date, Time,
Language, and Regional Options" intermediary.)

Either way, once in Regional and Language Options, click the Languages
tab -- by the way, I hope this makes sense in the Italian interface
which you presumably have as your default -- then in the Text services
and input languages part click on Details, then Add, choose your
Cyrillic language (Russian, Bulgarian, etc.) for the input, and then
choose a keyboard (e.g., Russian, Russian (Typewriter), etc., and then
OK back out as needed and restart. That's my notes from adding Slovak
just now to my Czech.  If you want completely detailed instructions,
check out http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/keyboards/winkey.html
or similar sites.

That will provide a permanent solution to the problem of having a way
of typing in Russian on your new computer running XP Home.  It will
work in Word and in the browsers through which you'd access any Google
search box.  So if that's the problem to be solved, yes.  If the
problem is defined differently, e.g., as installing something called
specifically and exactly "Typist's Cyrillic Homophonic Keyboard," a
program that Bing doesn't know exists, and for which Google finds
nothing useful either, then no.  We'd need to know more about whether
that program came from and what exactly "can't install" means, i.e.,
what you try to install from and what happens when you try.

But I really think that the best long-term solution is one that
doesn't chain you to just one computer, and lets you use any "native"
computer.  For that solution, AATSEEL notes at
http://www.aatseel.org/windows_cyrillic the method Ms. Devlin and I
have noted, and provides links to other sites with similar solutions
to the problem, such as
http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/gw-cyrillic/cyrilize.htm and other places,
some of which (e.g., winrus) include phonetic layouts of one variant
or another, so you can find the one you like best and tweak it.

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