Phonetic Keyboard Layout
Despite the fact that this program is designed to change layout of Russian keys on standard keyboard, it can be useful even for those who has no intention of typing in Russian or any other languages on their computers.
This program changes location of Russian characters on your keyboard. Also this program assigns new characters for
unused combination of keys.
If you think that it's just to activate menus - think again!
Simply put, Alt keys are designed to enter alternative
PhoneticLayout is designed to fill that gap. After installing PhoneticLayout you will be able to enter lots of special characters in programs where you couldn't do that before. That's because PhoneticLayout is not designed for a specific program, it is designed for Windows - the operational system. As long as you have the ability to type in a program you are using you should be able to enter those special characters. Please note that besides the ability to enter special characters your program should have approptiate fonts to display them, not to mention your program should allow you to use those characters in that place. Read FAQ for more information.
That was the secondary purpose of PhoneticLayout, because primary was to change location of Russian keys on standard US keyboard.
| Here's the problem: | If you want to type in russian on your computer with
Microsoft Windows, then you need to know where russian keys are
located on your keyboard. Assuming you are already installed Russian
Keyboard Driver (see FAQ for info on that). |
| The Solution: | Install Phonetic Keyboard Layout, and as long as you can
type in english, you should very easy and fast be able to adopt a
standard English keyboard to type in Russian. That's because
PhoneticLayout changes location of most Russian keys to be located
under it's english phonetic equivalent (hence the name
Phonetic). |
Below is the layout of Russian kyes after installing PhoneticLayout on your computer.
| Layout of keys assuming Caps Lock button is off |  |
| Layout of keys with SHIFT key down |  |
Positive Side-Effect
We thought: as long as you are installing our program on your
computer which will adjust your keys location, why don't we throw
something extra in our ley mapping, so you will be able to type some
extra characters? And we did!
That's why after installing PhoneticLayout you will be able to enter
many extra characters by pressing certain combination keys.
Here's how you would do that: Assuming you are installed
PhoneticLayout
- Swith to Russian Language by pressing a combination of keys defined in your Control Panel under Keyboard Properties applet, under tab Input Locales (by default left Alt+Shift).
- Press right Ctrl and Alt at the same time, and then, while holding them down, any other key. If that key has extended character set assigned to it, then you will see that character in your program.
In some cases you may need to hold down 3 keys at the same time right
Ctrl+Alt+Shift and then the 4th key to enter a text.
Here's the layout of some symbolic kyes after installing PhoneticLayout on your computer.
| Layout of keys assuming Caps Lock button is off |  |
| Layout of keys with SHIFT key down |  |
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