Russian keyboards

[Michael A. Denner]

i have to agree with colleagues here who are astonished that this point is
being discussed, particularly inasmuch as it's simple to install both the
soviet (russian) keyboard and a phonetic. i use the latter and my colleague
the former, and we just switch the keyboard setting with a click. кому как.

russian for gringos works on every computer i've ever used it on. and as
don livingston points out, it's far and away the easiest way to mark
stress... i might have mapped a few of the characters differently, but...

finally, a workaround that i use all the time: google translate with the
privet->привет function enabled, or even better the voice input method
(quite good!). as i am a sloppy typist in the best of circumstances, i
frankly appreciate its empathy for my foibles...

~mad

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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Alina Israeli <aisrael at american.edu> wrote:

> My 2¢. Switching from QWERTY to AZERTY is also not easy if you are used to
> touch typing.
>
> For individuals, not labs, I suppose, there is a Ukelele (sic!) program
> that allows you to change your keyboard layout. It allowed me at one point
> to synchronize my Mac and my PC, because various phonetic keyboards place Щ
> or Ю rather according to their own desires.
>
> On May 1, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Sarah Hurst wrote:
>
> This has been very interesting. I didn't know that phonetic keyboards were
> so widely used. I assumed that the standard Russian keyboard would be
> easier to use because the most frequently-used letters are more central, as
> with the QWERTY keyboard.****
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>   Alina Israeli
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