Russian keyboards

[Stephanie Briggs]

For a black keyboard, has anyone had success with one colour of Cyrillic
stickers over another for visibility? I'm getting a new laptop shortly and
will need to get myself new labels. Initially, I got the set for my current
black keys from Amazon.co.uk. They were advertised as yellow, but actually
turned out to be green. So, still visible, but not as much as I'd hoped.

PS: I started off in 1999  studying with the FYVA layout (white/grey
keyboard, red stickers - worked great), and once I learned it, I found to
use the phonetic keyboard more confusing, to be honest. I suppose it
depends on your current usage, where you might use it in the future, and
personal adaptability as far as memorizing it goes. I have it partially
memorized, but then I also look at the keyboard whilst typing.

Stephanie

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On 1 May 2013 19:57, Michael A. Denner <mdenner at stetson.edu> wrote:

> 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...
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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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