Bahramov's Personal Blog » translit http://www.bahramov.com Computers, databases, networks and virtualization Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:05:26 +0000 en hourly 1 Typing in Cyrillic on any keyboard http://www.bahramov.com/2009/03/23/typing-in-cyrillic-on-any-keyboard/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.bahramov.com/2009/03/23/typing-in-cyrillic-on-any-keyboard/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:29:06 +0000 Zaur Bahramov http://www.bahramov.com/?p=137 If you speak and write in Russian but do not have a Russian keyboard you may find very useful an online service www.translit.ru. There you can either use an on-screen keyboard or type directly into a frame. All of your typed text will be immediately transliterated. Besides, you may register on this site and if you do so, you may personalize the layout as you wish.

studentHowever, if you frequently need to type in Russian on your home pc it might be a better solution to download a Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator and define your own keyboard layout. You will need Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 (MSKLC will not run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME or Windows NT4) and Microsoft .NET Framework v1.0 or v1.1. You can download Microsoft .NET Framework from here. There’s a very good information on customizing keyboard layouts and some compiled layouts on Paul Gorodyansky’s page. Also, he offers a Virtual Cyrillic keyboard which you can use online.

Virtual Keyboard allows you to input via regular keyboard (though mouse can be used, too) and – important! – you can type "as at home", choosing, in the menu below the image, same layout (Standard or Phonetic) that you use at home!

For installation, customization instructions and compiled layouts go here or download those layouts from here:

  Windows Vista and XP/2003 Windows 2000/NT Windows 95/98/ME
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Here’s the layout that I use for typing in Cyrillic when using Italian keyboard.

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