To type in Russian using Cyrillic characters, if you do not already have a Russian language keyboard setting availabe, you will need to configure one prior to starting a placement test. The information here is a rough guide for users of Windows 8 and Windows 10 with specifics that may not apply to earlier versions of Windows. Users of Windows 7, Vista, and earlier versions should contrast Microsoft's instructions for adding a keyboard to the information found here.
This Russian Keyboard enables you to easily type Russian online without installing Russian keyboard.You can use your computer keyboard or mouse to type Russian letters with this online keyboard. Pressing Esc on the Russian keyboard layout will toggle the mouse input between virtual QWERTY keyboard and virtual Russian keyboard. The key will also turn on/off your keyboard input conversion. Dec 22, 2017.
Mac OS X 10.2 and up; Mac OS X up to 10.1.5. Mac OS X Transliterated US Keyboard for Russian. Provided by the Multimedia Learning Center, Northwestern University. (Link to information and instructions.) P II (106k). A homophonic/QWERTY keyboard layout. Sep 07, 2006. Typing Russian when system tune-up cannot be done: at work or in a hotel's business center Windows or Mac computer. If you need to write in Russian, but you are not using your own PC, say you are in an Internet-cafe or in the library, where you can read Russian but can not write - cannot use Windows Control Panel to enable system keyboard tools for Russian, then it's still Ok, there is an easy.
To add a keyboard for Russian language input, begin by opening the Settings application from either the Windows Start Menu or by typing in 'Settings' into the Windows search box.
In the Settings application, select the 'Time and Language' option
On the Time & Language screen, select the sub-category for 'Region & Language' on the left side of the screen, then choose the 'Add a language' button on the right to begin configuring a keyboard for the Russian language.
Find 'Russian' in the list of languages or filter the list by typing in the language name directly into the search box. It is best to select the generic language option 'Руццкий' rather than a specific regional variety. This will add an entry for Russian language support to your computer.
By default, Russian language support uses the same keyboard layout as in Russia. If this layout is familiar to you, then you may skip the next step. Most users, however, will want to use a Mnemonic keyboard setting instead because this more closely maps the sounds of Cyrillc letters to the Roman letters on a standard U.S. QWERTY keyboard.
Next, to set up the special 'Mnemonic' keyboard, click on the 'Руццкий' language item under Languages and then choose 'Options.'
Next, add the mnemonic keyboard option by clicking 'Add a keyboard', then selecting the 'Russian - Mnemonic' option.
To avoid the confusion of having two different Russian language keyboards, you may wish to remove the original keyboard setting, 'Russian - ЙЦУКЕН', by clicking on it and then selecting the Remove option. This will leave the Mnemonic keyboard as the main keyboard for Russian input.
With the keyboard option now set, you may now close the Settings application.
Using the Russian Keyboard
When ready to use the Russian keyboard setting, you will be able to switch back-and-forth between Roman and Cyrillic keyboards as needed. On the desktop taskbar, tap or click the language abbreviation in the notification area at the far right of the taskbar, and then tap or click the keyboard layout or input method you want to switch to.
The 'Russian - Mnemonic' keyboard setting makes Cyrillic letters available where they approximately match the sounds of the corresponding letters of a standard U.S. 'QWERTY' keyboard.
Some users, particularly those with touch screens, may find it helpful to enable the on-screen keyboard option to more easily type in Cyrillc letters. Microsoft provides instructions on how to enable the On-Screen Keyboard for users of Windows 7 and higher: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/10762/windows-use-on-screen-keyboard
Russian keyboard, standard and phonetic:type Russian with system keyboard tools
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To download this archive file, just click on the file name for your version of Windows Save the file to this newly created
Now, download the file for your version of Windows:
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Variants of Russian phonetic keyboard layout for
- kbdru_Y.zip - main layout 'yaWert' shown above
- kbdru_ZH.zip - 1st additional layout 'yaZHert' with opposite assignment for 'W' and 'V'
- student.zip - 2nd additional layout 'Student' shown above
- kbdru_y2.zip - 3rd additional layout 'yaWert2' shown above
Now you have my .ZIP with Phonetic layout files inside.
Phonetic installation Part 2 - for Windows 7,8/Vista and XP/2003
(Part 1 showed how to download .ZIP with needed files)
Here are the steps for a user of Windows XP/2003 or Vista/Windows 7,8,10:
- go to the folder where you saved my .ZIP, place a cursor on that file, click on right mouse button and choose 'Explorer' to see the contents of that archive.
- choose in the menu the following: File / Extract All ('Extract All' if it's Vista), and built-in Windows archive-processing program creates a sub-folder with the same name as archive file has and then places all extracted files to that newly created sub-folder.
After that program does its work, you will see that new folder and all extracted files there. - now click on file setup.exe there. You'll see a windows with
'Installation starts' message and then itdisappears - it's how Installers work under Windows; wait a little bit; if you see a Warning screen, choose there 'Run' or 'Allow' option; wait a little bit more and you'll see a message that the installation of keyboard layout'Russian Phonetic - WinRus.com' is done successfully. - Now log-out of the system and then log-in again
If you already activated Standard layout before, you need to remove it (from the list of active layout, not from the system) to have just Phonetic layout working as 'RU' (only one layout can be 'active' for an Input Language).
Control Panel / 'Regional and Language Options' - 'Languages' tab - 'Details' button
(underVista - 'Keyboard and Languages' tab and 'Change Keyboard' button) -
if you see there that for language 'Russian' you have two activelayouts - 'Russian' and 'Russian Phonetic - WinRus.com'
(under Vista you need to click on '+' next to word 'Russian' to see active layouts),
then place cursor to 'Russian' layout line (which is right above'Russian Phonetic - WinRus.com' ) and click on 'Remove'.
(under
if you see there that for language 'Russian' you have two active
(under Vista you need to click on '+' next to word 'Russian' to see active layouts),
then place cursor to 'Russian' layout line (which is right above
Click again on the same setup.exe -
it will offer you twooptions - 'Remove' and 'Repair'. Click on 'Remove', wait a little bit and you'll see a message that 'Russian Phonetic - WinRus.com' layout was successfully uninstalled.
it will offer you two
Or you can just remove Phonetic layout from the list of active layouts, choosing another layout as 'active' for 'RU'.
MODIFICATION of my Phonetic layout
As I mentioned above, I did not personally design this variant of placing Russian letters on the keyboard, I just took as a basis the widely used (for years) variant called YaWERT.
If you are not satisfied with my placement of the Russian letters on the keyboard, then you can modify my phonetic layout.
This is my instructional page for such modification, it's on a separate page: 'How to modify Phonetic Layout'
Final notes about Russian keyboard usage
You have now active Russian keyboard layout and can start typing Russian!
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Important.
Some text editors and all older software
- Select the appropriate Cyrillic font from the fonts list
- Switch keyboard to Russian mode
Unicode font is a very large font and contains letters of many different alphabets, including Western European, Russian, Greek, etc. It was explained in details in my Fonts and Encodings section mentioned at the beginning of this page.
These modern programs use a new approach for typing that is based on the language of the keyboard (non-Unicode programs require a user to choose a national font first).
If you work with a Unicode font such as 'Arial' or'Times New Roman' then these modern Unicode-based applications let you input your own text as follows:
If you work with a Unicode font such as 'Arial' or
- you do not select a Russian font in the fonts list. For example, in
Word 97 you see just 'Arial' in the fonts window (you do not see its parts such as'Arial (Cyrillic)' as it was inWord 6 ) - instead, you just switch the keyboard mode to
Russian ('RU'). Based on the selected keyboard mode, these Unicode applications use thecorresponding part of this large, multi-lingual Unicode font, that is, Cyrillic part of this large font will be used when you type and thus you will see a Russian text on the screen.
It's even more obvious in a Web browser - you don't see any font window at all, you just switch the keyboard to Russian and start typing.
Russian Keyboard Download Free For Windows 10
Typing Russian when system tune-up cannot be done:
at work or in a hotel's business center Windows or Mac computer
If you need to write in Russian, but you are not using your own PC, say you are in an Internet-cafe or in the library, where you can read Russian but can not
you can use special Web page with a Virtual Keyboard where you can input Cyrillic text (using mouse or physical keyboard) and then copy it to the place where you need it.
That is, even in that case you should not send a transliteration, latin text such as 'privet' or 'schast'ye' that will bother the readers of that message - no, you can send normal Cyrillic text.
Virtual Keyboard allows you to input via regular keyboard (though mouse can be used, too) and - important! - you can type 'as at home', choosing, in the menu below the image, same layout (Standard or Phonetic) that you use at home!
Please see for yourself: 'On-screen, virtual Russian keyboard'
While in Internet-cafe, you can use a short address of that Virtual Keyboard:
- TypeRus.com (=http://winrus.com/keyboard.htm)
Obviously, it's not as handy as typing with regular Windows or Mac keyboard tools, so you should use such special Web page only in such 'corner case' as Internet-cafe or library (or if you need to type Russian not too often).
That is, if it's your own computer at home then you should spend 20 minutes - one time! - to read the instruction on this page, for regular Windows keyboard tools activation via Control Panel (with standard or phonetic Russian keyboard layout).
Best Keyboards For Mac
Typing Russian if it's not a Windows computer (regular and phonetic keyboard layouts)
Macintosh, Linux, gadgets/tablet PCs - iPad/IPhone, Android
Apple Macintosh: regular and phonetic keyboard layouts for Russian
OOB English Mac computers already have both types of Russian keyboard layouts - regular and phonetic. Regular type has 2 variants - Mac-own and 'Windows PC' that is, almost the same as under MS Windows.
Here is my page about all this, but it's only in Russian (I am sure English speakers who work with Mac can figure out keyboard layouts settings there themselves):
'Ввод кириллицы под НЕрусским Макинтошем: обычные и фонетические раскладки; буква 'Ё' в раскладках'
There is a freeware Layout Editor for Mac and you can re-position letters and symbols if you wish (say, make Phonetic layout for French keyboard):
Ukelele - Mac layout editor
Free Russian Keyboard On Screen
Unix / Linux: regular and phonetic keyboard layouts for Russian typing
- OOB Linux also already has both standard and phonetic Russian keyboard layouts.
But just in case, here is an instruction for custom, YaZHert phonetic keyboard layout (as it was shown on an image above) made under Linux by Michael LoneWolf:
'Adding Russian Phonetic YaZhert Keyboard to Linux'
- Russian phonetic keyboard layout for Unix X11:
http://www.jhindin.com/programs/XFreeCyrPhonetic/
Russian keyboard layouts - standard and phonetic - for gadgets - smartphones, tablet PCs
Note.
On many gadgets there is a common way to get Russian letter 'Ё' - press Russian 'Е' and hold it for more than a second. You'll see 'Ё' in drop-down frame.
On many gadgets there is a common way to get Russian letter 'Ё' - press Russian 'Е' and hold it for more than a second. You'll see 'Ё' in drop-down frame.
Links related to iPhone and iPad - these gadgets already have built-in Russian keyboard (AFAIK, as I don't have any of those devices) but just in case, here are some 3rd part Russin Keyboard apps (just examples, as more such apps can be found by searching Apple Store for
- for the screen, touch keyboard:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swiftkey-keyboard
Android devices
Russian Keyboard Download Free
Official site to get applications: Google Play.
Most are free, otherwise it's written there. Some have ads, but then it's also written there,'Contains Ads. Offers in-app purchases'.
Most are free, otherwise it's written there. Some have ads, but then it's also written there,
Some links (just examples, one can find more 'Russian keyboard' apps there), I personally didn't try first two listed below:
- 'SlideIt'
- Russian Keyboard application by ru.androidteam.rukeyboard - Russian Keyboard - has both standard and phonetic layouts
Article (in Russian) about Russian typing on gadgets with external USB keyboard -
'Как переключить внешнюю клавиатуру на русский' - This is one I use - multilingual keyboard application, Russian included (both standard and phonetic layouts) -
'Hacker's Keyboard': - description, instruction - User's Guide
- 'FAQ' - FAQ
IMHO, this is very useful app as it emulates regular computer keyboard
I've made there my own phonetic layout described above as 'Yawert' so I can use same layout under my MS Windows computer and on my Android gadgets.
That is, with my variant of .apk file of this app, 'Russian Phonetic' is my 'Yawert'.- download original app (.apk file that you will need to install on your device) - hackerskeyboard/releases
- download my variant of this app (my .apk file) - yawerty.apk
End of the chapter 'Final notes about Russian keyboard usage'
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