Re: OT: A Better Keyboard

From: Jugoslav Dujic (jdujic_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:03:20 +0100

Polik wrote:
| "Jugoslav Dujic" <jdujic@yahoo.com> wrote in message
| news:2usav2F2efvhmU1@uni-berlin.de...
||
|| Note that I'm talking about reading Cyrillic text and typing it
|| (in either Latin or Cyrillic) with the keyboard layout
|| I'm profficient with -- that wouldn't happen to me if either if
|| I'd try to use an unfamiliar layout such as Russian.
|
| It is interesting that there is a standard keyboard layout for Russian. And
| yet Windows provides an alternate keyboard layout where "g" and "г" and "d"
| and "д" and "n" and "н" use the same key. Presumably, this makes it easier
| for Anglophones to type in Russian. For my part, I do not use it.

I don't see it on my Win2000 -- there are "Russian" and "Russian (typewriter)"
but they seem to be identical for the most part. It was presumably added latter
in XP? No, I took a look there and there are also these two?

P.S. If you use OE, you have to switch the Format/Encoding to UTF-8 or
one of "Cyrillic" encodings in order that others see Cyrillic letters --
I (hopefully) restored the ?'s in your post above.

P.P.S. I warmly recommend "OE-quotefix" (or "Outlook-quotefix") plug-in
for that Outlook (Express) piece of crap -- makes it behave much better:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software.php
I've been using it for 2 years already and it's been working flawlessly,
surviving even 3-4 OE/IE down^H^H^H upgrades without reinstallation. 

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