Setting up Cyrillic on your computer
For WINDOWS
If you are using XP / VISTA, go to
>SETTINGS, >CONTROL PANEL, >REGIONAL and LANGUAGE
OPTIONS. In the drop-down
menu go to >LANGUAGE and click
DETAILS. Click >ADD. In the language list find >RUSSIAN and
click >OK. When the panel closes, c
lick OK again. You
have Cyrillic using the Russian keyboard. The screen TRAY
will now show an EN, RU, or Rt.
Be sure to tell the system how you wish to toggle between EN and
RU. The Standard is SHIFDT + ALT. Change the language by
clicking
in the tray or toggle with SHIFT +
ALT.
VISTA requires its own
phonetic keyboard driver, the FIRST
item on the page
@http://web.wm.edu/modlang/tech_notes/ruskbd.php?svr=www
Phonetic keyboard drivers for
MAC and for XP are also on thius page.
The
following
web site contains down loadable fonts and keyboard drivers if you are
using something other than XP. There
are
TWO standard Russian keyboards. I recommend neither, but rather
the
so-called "phonetic" or "homophonic" keyboard. In this
layout, most
Russian letters are found where their English equivalents would
be.
This speeds typing.
http://aatseel.org/fonts/wincyrillic.html
http://www.klm32.com/
For
MAC