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Article: 13494 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Typing Cyrillic on a Roman keyboard
Date: 30 Jun 2002 14:05:16 -0400
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Those of you who have been experimenting with Kermit 95's character-set
features might have stumbled upon something called Russian Keyboard Mode,
which is explained in the online Kermit 95 manual. This lets you type
Russian text even if you don't have a Cyrillic keyboard or a Russian (or
Ukrainian, etc) keyboard driver.
K95's built-in Russian keyboard mode uses the normal Russian layout, which
is not especially handy for people who have Roman (Latin, English, West
European, etc) keyboards.
Here's a new key map for K95 Russian Keyboard Mode that lets you type
Russian "by sound" on a Roman Keyboard: Roman A sends Cyrillic A, Roman B
sends Cyrillic Be, Roman C sends Cyrillic Tse, and so on, according to the
mappings of KOI8 (USSR GOST 19768-76):
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/koikeys
It's quite easy to pick up, and it works for any TERMINAL CHARACTER-SET that
is (or includes) Cyrillic, such as KOI8, KOI8R, KOI8U, ISO Latin/Cyrillic,
or Unicode UTF-8. Just download this file, TAKE it, and then whenever you
switch to Russian Keyboard Mode (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R), you'll have the
ASCII-friendly mappings rather than the Russian keyboard layout. Obviously
the host you are viewing through your terminal window must allow the use
of 8-bit characters, but that's the rule these days (and for those that
don't, there is still 7-bit SHORT-KOI).
- Frank