keyboard arrangements

[Steven Hill]

Dear colleagues:

Brief followup to discussion of fonts & keyboards.  I recently submitted a correction of a bizarre
misspelling on "Internet Movie Database."  At the time, I could not figure out how such a far-fetched
misspelling could have occurred.  But maybe that data had been authored by someone familiar with the
"Soviet-style" arrangement of  Cyrillic keys, and who was typing "blind"?

It was supposed to be a character's name in a film: "K. SAMOILOV" (or "KLIM SAMOILOV").

But on IMDB it was spelled  "K SHRDLU," believe it or not.

Does the above misspelling make sense to you experts who regularly work with the "non-homophonic"
arrangement of Cyrillic keys?

Cheers, Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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