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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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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.
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...
"Is there a way to get a true phonetic keyboard installed on it, given the limitations on installing things on the Surface?"
I don't know Surface and did not hear about such limitations, but it's still Windows 8, right?
Under Windows 8, many people (me including) successfully installed 'good old' Russian phonetic keyboard layouts - same they used under XP:
- choose one by looking at its image - http://winrus.com/print_r.htm (see English UI page link at the top left corner)
- installation steps:
- in Russian - http://winrus.com/kbd_r.htm#3minFiles
- in English - http://winrus.com/kbd_e.htm#inst
:)
Thanks very much for your quick and helpful reply; I appreciate it! In fact, I've used these files on other computers in the past, and really liked them (especially the second option of the RUS-Y setup). I followed the instructions for Windows 8, but when I came to the step of clicking 'setup,' I ran into the problem that I was worried about: 'this file cannot run on this PC' (with the suggestion then to go to the Windows 'app' store). Surface 2 uses the 'RT' version of Windows, and limits users' ability to install programs/files. :(
"Is there a way to get a true phonetic keyboard installed on it, given the limitations on installing things on the Surface?"
I don't know Surface and did not hear about such limitations, but it's still Windows 8, right?
Under Windows 8, many people (me including) successfully installed 'good old' Russian phonetic keyboard layouts - same they used under XP:
:)
I agree: having to type a combination of keys to produce one letter is cumbersome, and often leads to mistakes in typing.
I have the Surface 2 (not the Pro). Is there a way to get a true phonetic keyboard installed on it, given the limitations on installing things on the Surface?
Thanks, in advance, for your help!
