question about handhelds/smartphones and Cyrillic

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Renee Stillings|Alinga wrote:

> I am wondering, on such a small keyboard, how they will make a bilingual
> keyboard, as would normally be the case on all things in Russia.
> ...

Presumably the same way as in Windows: you define two keyboards and a
hotkey to toggle between them. When the user enters the hotkey to enable
the Cyrillic keyboard (left ALT-SHIFT in Windows), the keys are

Ё 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - =
    Й Ц У К Е Н Г Ш Щ З Х Ъ \
     Ф Ы В А П Р О Л Д Ж Э
      Я Ч С М И Т Ь Б Ю .

And when the user enters the code to enable the Western keyboard, they
switch back to

` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - =
    Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ] \
     A S D F G H J K L ; '
      Z X C V B N M , . /

But I agree it wouldn't be very easy to print both values on all the
keys. They'd probably pick one character set and force the user to
remember the other.

--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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