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
    2015-01-24T01:33:16+00:00

    Since I keep forgetting, and always keep getting to this post, I'll save the knowledge here:

    x->ж

    sc->щ

    sh->ш

    ch->ч

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-08-08T07:15:38+00:00

    It's not awesome, it's just very, very stupid and inconvenient. What is absolutely frustrating, that Windows 10 update has silently changed layout of my keyboard (that has all letters and was very convenient), now I'm trying to figure out how to return my layout back...

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-08-16T15:10:28+00:00

    "now I'm trying to figure out how to return my layout back... "

    As people already tried: same Russian layout (phonetic, when A-A,O-O,...) that you used under Windows 7, can be installed under Windows 10.

    Here is what such user wrote (note. I am not sure that step 3 is necessary - it was not needed under Windows 7):

    "1) Download .zip of the Russian phonetic layout I used under Windows 7:

    http://phonetic.WinRus.com (or same in Russian - http://files.WinRus.com)

    1. Extracted all the files from that .zip. One of the files is setup.exe
    2. I  deleted Microsoft Russian mnemonic keyboard layout

    4), Started the setup. The only slowdown was the Firewall, I had to

    allow the exception to run the program.

    Everything works as it should now."

    :-)

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