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In article (Dans l'article) <ef8eef7.-1@WebX.aaQKaf7vad4>, "torbj�rn s
salvesen" <torbjoes@online.no> wrote (�crivait)�:

>My task is to jump between Cyrillic and Latin character, even on the same
line of text. I have a Cyrillic font installed, so I tried out the qwerty
keyboard to see who is who, and saw the helter-skelter distribution of
versals and miniscules, and some few characters were missing. I am looking
for an easy way to accomplish my task. Thank you. tss

It depends on your OS, but you should be able to switch easily between
latin keyboard mapping and cyrillic one. The best solution, though, is to
switch between latin and transliterated cyrillic. With a transliterated
keyboard, you continue typing phoneticaly after switching keyboard. This is
the only efficient method for typing text in foreign languages: choosing
characters one by one in the character table is certainly not efficient!
This, as far as I know, is possible for MacOS (with WorldScript support)
and for Windows (with Multilingual support). Those are not installed by
default, you have to check your install CD or their site. Anyway, most of
the time, the transliterated keyboards exist only for american azerty
keyboard. If your native keyboard is different, local vendors of Apple or
Microsoft should provide them. Alas, in the fact, they never do it. For
MacOS, I customized french azerty transliterated keyboards for cyrillic,
greek and CE languages, but they no longer work with Unicode support:
resource format changed and it is not documented. As for Windows, it seems
there is no easy way to customize keyboards.

This is nonsense. We, users, should make some lobbying to get what we need.
If those companies did their job, you should be able to switch between
appropriate mappings just with the choice of a menu item. If they don't
want to make the work, at least let them make the keyboards resources
format public, so that we can do the job ourselves. :(

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Olivier RANDIER -- Experluette                        
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