On Mon, Oct 24, 2022, 23:57 Ali Corbin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:24 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > ..... > > > Does anyone on the plug list have experience using multiple > > keyboards and alternate character sets? Suggested vendors > > for those keyboards? Helpful Linux tools for linguistic > > cripples? > > > > I regularly switch back and forth between Latin, Cyrillic, and (ancient) > Greek. But I simply switch the layouts, using a single physical keyboard > for each. Which takes some memorization. Since I never learned to > touch-type in Russian, I can use a phonetic Cyrillic keyboard and mostly > press the Latin key that sounds like the Cyrillic one. I do have to > memorize where the extra letters are, or bring up an image of the keyboard > layout, or even bring up the character map and click the letters into the > paste buffer. >
I also switch the keyboard layout while looking at the appropriate country key layout print out placed above the keyboard. After a while, I do not need to look at it much. All that said, I admit, I am getting lazier about it over the time; and simply use ascii characters skipping the diacritic. I still use Cyrillic layout from time to time, mostly to show off. People are pretty comfortable with English... So we use it as common language. -T >
