If your goal is simply transliteration I think it would be more apt to memorize the pronunciation of each Cyrillic character than to learn to type it on a keyboard in a way that substitutes a partially- correspondent English letter for each Russian letter.
I'm a bit confused at your hangup about 2-byte unicode vs ASCII, since I was under the impression that an ordinary computer will properly transform the incoming keyboard data into unicode. The keyboard input is not ascii, and this is the data my computer receives when I press the a key: 00000000: 307a 5b63 0000 0000 7137 0d00 0000 0000 0z[c....q7...... 00000010: 0400 0400 1e00 0000 307a 5b63 0000 0000 ........0z[c.... 00000020: 7137 0d00 0000 0000 0100 1e00 0100 0000 q7.............. 00000030: 307a 5b63 0000 0000 7137 0d00 0000 0000 0z[c....q7...... -Simon On Thu, 2022-10-27 at 23:16 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 08:19:00PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > I hope to purchase native "Nordic" and "Cyrillic/Russian" > > USB keyboards. > > > > I exchange emails with Swedish and Finnish writers, and > > recently a Berlin author writing a Russian language book. > > Multinational geekiness for a monolingual American. > > > > Google translate is often helpful, and I can cut and paste > > from that, but sometimes I need to type the special letters > > in these languages; remembering and typing the digraphs is > > a pain. > > ------ > > For all of you cheerfully answering the wrong question, > not about KEYBOARDS, I thought I would repeat it, above. > > I will clarify a bit - > > Lately I've encountered MANY pages of photocopied Russian > and Cyrillic, some sent by my respondents, some with the > name Кит Лофстром in them, and I want to suss out roughly > what they are before I select a few for professional > translation, the $$$ kind. > > Or use the impose-on-my-Russian-speaking-friends kind of > translation. A keyboard with "native" Cyrillic key-caps > would be helpful for visually transcribing a few lines of > text ... with trial-and-error for the characters that > are so smudged that they will require a few guesses. > > Ditto for Swedish and Finnish. > > I can indeed chord a US-English keyboard, SLOWLY > generating alt-alphabet characters as some respondents > suggest, but my time is worth more than that. I could > even read a table and type the ISO hexadecimal, wasting > even more time. > > But I am working too many hours as it is, and if I am > willing to spend spend $17,000 for a new roof next week, > I can spend $50-$100 on an alternate alphabet keyboard > if that saves me many hours. > > As the list conversation drifted off into the weeds, I > punted and ordered a Nordic keyboard for $40 yesterday. > But ... it may not generate two-byte Unicode, or it may > not signal its "Nordic-ness" to the computer. Perhaps I > wasted my money, along a two week wait for the delivery > time from Europe. > > But if that Nordic keyboard can be made to work the way > I want, generating Nordic characters from Nordic-topped > key clicks, in parallel with a US-ASCII keyboard generating > US-ASCII characters, I will try punting again, and order > a more-costly Cyrillic keyboard, and wait even longer for > that to be delivered, perhaps purchased from some dodgy > central European vendor who also buys baby-killing gas > for the P-twit in the East. > > ---- > > Or perhaps ... someone can answer the question about two > keyboards at once with different character sets. I know I > can connect two US-ASCII USB keyboards into one computer, > and type the US-ASCII letters from either keyboard. > > What happens if I pair US-ASCII with "Euro", perhaps with > two different logins? > > If that won't work on one computer, perhaps I could plug > two keyboards into two different computers, re-configure > the Other computer for "native" Swedish or Finnish or > Cyrillic, and ssh the result to the US-ASCII computer. > > But Linux is multilingual, and its originator is a > Swedish-speaking Finn. WWLD? What Would Linus Do? > > Keith >
