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
    2015-12-01T17:11:08+00:00

    I can advice to use old keyboard driver  WK32. This driver including English, Russian, Armenian phonetic and typewriter schemas.  If you need, I can send it to you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-10-31T18:22:42+00:00

    "Thanks, "яШерт" layout from winrus.com is almost perfect. But I'd like to change H from Ч to Х - just because this is their phonetically closest match."

    You can have it in 10 minutes :-) - it's a beauty of the "old" MS approach, developed first in  XP:

    Microsoft gave us free keyboard layout creator (it did not work under 8.0 but I heard that it works under 8.1) and thus a user can either create a layout from scratch (as I did) or get a layout (such as one of mine) and re-assign 2-3 letters (your case!)

    Here is my instruction for that layout creator, so you can install one of my layouts first and then modify it, changing places for those 2 letters:

    http://freeMSKLC.winrus.com

    :-)

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  3. 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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