Same things for Linux, Macintosh, and gadgets (Apple and Android) are covered on other people pages and I provide the links at the end of this page, in the chapter'Final notes about Russian keyboard usage'.
'How to activate standard, regular Russian keyboard layout for US English MS Windows'
I've made my phonetic layout to be similar to US English keyboard, that is, tried to keep most Russian letters and other symbols and punctuation marks on the same places where they are drawn on US English keyboard.
If a person types a lot using say French keyboard, s/he may want to change my Russian phonetic layoutaccordingly - there is an instruction for such modification down below.
If you already know what Phonetic layout is and just want to start installing it on your computer, then you can skip the explanations below and go at once to theinstallation details.
But even for other tasks I think to forbid Windows to hide the extensions is a goodchoice - why let Windows consider you a novice who is afraid to see file extensions? In many cases this default hiding can be evendangerous - you will see 2 files, both will have the same name and you would not know which is which, because the extensions are not shown...
To download this archive file, just click on the file name for your version of Windows Save the file to this newly created Now, download the file for your version of Windows: |
Unicode font is a very large font and contains letters of many different alphabets, including Western European, Russian, Greek, etc. It was explained in details in my Fonts and Encodings section mentioned at the beginning of this page.
'Ввод кириллицы под НЕрусским Макинтошем: обычные и фонетические раскладки; буква 'Ё' в раскладках'
Ukelele - Mac layout editor
'Adding Russian Phonetic YaZhert Keyboard to Linux'
http://www.jhindin.com/programs/XFreeCyrPhonetic/