Russian mnemonic keyboard three letters missing: щ ч э

Anonymous
2012-12-24T05:08:49+00:00

It is nice that windows 8 added a mnemonic Russian keyboard.

Unfortunately there are three letters which I can not find: щ, ч and э.

These three letters exist in the standard Russian keyboard. They are at the following location (in the US  keyboard): o,x and '.

Without these three letters the mnemonic keyboard is useless

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Anonymous
2013-01-16T03:58:39+00:00

You just need to type multiple keys to get to those letters: For example some (not all) of them:

sh -> ш

ch -> ч

jo -> ё

je -> э

And this is just awesome. This means you just type the way it sounds and Russian letters just magically produced.

Chego eschjo xhelat'? -> Чего ещё желать?

Note that the left hand side is quite readable as is.

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2013-01-24T14:59:23+00:00

It is nice that windows 8 added a mnemonic Russian keyboard.

Unfortunately there are three letters which I can not find: щ, ч and э.

These three letters exist in the standard Russian keyboard. They are at the following location (in the US  keyboard): o,x and '.

Without these three letters the mnemonic keyboard is useless

One not very obvious aspect is the way the combination "ые" is typed, by the way. You actually need to hit the spacebar after typing [English] 'y', so that the keyboard knows you are in fact typing 'ы' and not the first element of ’э', which is entered using the English key sequence 'ye'. By contrast, if you want to type 'ые’ (as in 'красивые') you need to type '[krasiv]y[spacebar]e.'

Was frustrating for me before I figured that one out...

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-06-01T12:36:02+00:00

    Again, many thanks!

    it was a confirmation message. Now under input options 'Russian' is grated out, and only 'mnemonic' and 'typewriter' remain.

    i tried copying the file to the system32 folder, but no change.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-01T20:22:23+00:00

    "Now under input options 'Russian' is grated out, and only 'mnemonic' and 'typewriter' remain."

    1)

    Sorry, I did not get it. Under

    input options 'Russian'

    there needs to be only one item. You must Remove all but one.

    But if you click on "Add" you should see the candidates to be that one item.

    Do you see "Russian" among those candidates?

    1. To check the registration:
    • call Windows Explorer on screen - where you see files and folders
    • at the top right you see "Search" - type Regedit there
    • click on Regedit utility
    • navigate to

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

     SYSTEM

       CurrentControlSet

         Control

            Keyboard Layouts

    Click on 419 item and check that in the right pane it's

    "Russian"

    "kbdru_zh.dll"

    That is, that our phonetic layout DLL is registered as "Russian" instead of kbdru.dll

    :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-02T00:59:29+00:00

    Thanks very much!

    (1) yes, I've got it so that there is only one option selected. But when I have 'Russian' selected, it still shows up as grayed out - and won't let me preview it, for example. And afterwards, there is no way to switch input languages. (The Windows + space combo doesn't work, and there is no 'ENG' or 'RUS' or anything showing in the task tray below. I will try to include a screenshot or two.

    (2) interestingly, yes, 'Russian' and 'kbdru_zh.dll' are showing up in the directory that you pointed me to. (Again, will try to include a screenshot.)

    So it seems all the steps did make the necessary changes - but my 'RT' system won't let me use them.

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