Type russian on windows

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Keyboard layout specifies how letters and symbols are located on the keyboard buttons for a given .
For example, when Input Language is English (shows as «EN» in the taskbar), Windows offers a set of layouts to choose from:

• US English
• Dvorak
• .

That is, for a given Input Language, system could offer several different layouts (different location of letters and symbols).
Here is Microsoft page that shows the layouts for each and every Input Language in the OOB system: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.mspx

A user opens Keyboard Layouts section of Control Panel if there is a need to add a layout or to check that desired layout is selected as active for an Input Language
(for example, check if it’s «US English» and not for «EN» if errouneously Shift-2 gives a quote instead of ‘@’)

Also, if user finds that say something is wrong/strange in the typing, s/he may want to visit that section to make sure that only one layout is selected for the Input Language.
The system must be presented with only one active layout per language otherwise how Windows would know what symbol to show when a button is pressed .

The steps needed to access Keyboard Layout section of Control Panel do vary from one Windows version to another and all variants are listed below. The steps use standard Russian Keyboard layout as an example ( «RU» becomes available in the taskbar via Alt+Shift switch from «EN»), but they are the same for any other European language.

Note. Windows offers two Russian keyboard layouts in OOB system (as you can see on Microsoft page mentioned above):

• standard, regular one called «Russian»
• alternative — «Russian, Typewriter» where digits are typed via Shift as on old mechanical typewriters in USSR.

Here is how standard, regular Russian keyboard layout looks like (location of letters and symbols — in red ):

How to activate standard Russian Keyboard layout

Russian layout for Windows XP/2003

1. Start / Control Panel
   (or if it’s Classic View — Start / Settings / Control Panel)
2. click Regional and Language Options
3. open Languages section
4. click Details in the «Text Services and Input Languages» frame
5. click Add in the «Installed Services» frame
6. find «Russian» in the list of Input Languages and click OK
   
   • place a check mark at the next option «Keyboard layout»

(now you can see the list of available layouts and see by yourself that there is another layout for )

Important! This is all you need to do to be able to type in Russian. You should not use option on that screen, that is, do not choose Russian layout as your default.

As it was noted above, if you see not one but several layouts in the list of active layouts for Russian, then you must remove unneeded ones and leave only one layout active for Russian language.

click Apply down below at the right and Windows finds a layout file of standard Russian kbdru.dll .

The default method to switch keyboard from English typing («EN») to Russian typing («RU») is via (this key combination is listed on the same Layouts screen, just click on to see all available combinations.

Now you can switch your keybord to «RU» and start typing Russian Cyrillic!

Note. The steps above are for your own computer where you can perform such tune-up.
But you can type Russian even if you are in the businees center of a hotel and computer there does not allow any tune-up:
there are Web pages with so called «Virtual Russian Keyboard» that emulates your «home» input to let you type as you got used to.

See the information at the #v1 of this page.

Russiant keyboard layout for Windows 7 or Vista

1. Start / Control Panel / Clock, Language, Region
2. double-click on Regional and Language Options
3. find «Keyboard and Languages» tab there
4. click «Change Keyboard»
5. click Add (
6. find «Russian» in the list of languages and click ‘+’ to see the list of the layouts to choose from for «RU»
7. click on «Russian» in that list of layouts (it’s standard, regular Russian layout) to add this layout as active for «RU»

Important! This is all you need to do to be able to type in Russian. You should not use option on that screen, that is, do not choose Russian layout as your default.

As it was noted above, if you see not one but several layouts in the list of active layouts for Russian, then you must remove unneeded ones and leave only one layout active for Russian language.

click Apply down below at the right and Windows finds a layout file of standard Russian kbdru.dll .

The default method to switch keyboard from English typing («EN») to Russian typing («RU») is via (this key combination is listed on the same Layouts screen, just click on to see all available combinations.

Click OK as many times as needed to leave Control Panel

Now you can switch your keybord to «RU» and start typing Russian Cyrillic!

Note. The steps above are for your own computer where you can perform such tune-up.
But you can type Russian even if you are in the businees center of a hotel and computer there does not allow any tune-up:
there are Web pages with so called «Virtual Russian Keyboard» that emulates your «home» input to let you type as you got used to.

See the information at the #v2 of this page.

Russiant keyboard layout for Windows 8

1. Control Panel — Language
2. click «Add language»
3. find Russian («русский») in the list of languages anden click on that ‘square’ to select. Then click «Add» down below that screen.
4. now you are back to the screen with the list of active Input Languages and is now also in that list (where «English» is at the top of the list).

When you add Russian Input Language, the system automatically, by default, selected standard, regular Russian keyboard layout to be used for «RU».
To see other available Russian keyboard layouts, click «Options» at the right

Important! This is all you need to do to be able to type in Russian. You should not use option on that screen, that is, do not choose Russian layout as your default.

As it was noted above, if you see not one but several layouts in the list of active layouts for Russian, then you must remove unneeded ones and leave only one layout active for Russian language.

The way to switch keyboard from English typing («EN») to Russian typing («RU») is to press or to press pressing

Now you can switch your keybord to «RU» and start typing Russian Cyrillic!

Note. The steps above are for your own computer where you can perform such tune-up.
But you can type Russian even if you are in the businees center of a hotel and computer there does not allow any tune-up:
there are Web pages with so called «Virtual Russian Keyboard» that emulates your «home» input to let you type as you got used to.

See the information at the #v4 of this page.

Russiant keyboard layout for Windows 10

1. Open the Start Menu and click on «Settings.» Within «Settings,» click on «Time & language.»
2. Within «Time & language,» click on «Region & language» in the left sidebar. In the main part of the screen, click «Add a language.»
3. This will bring up a list of all the languages you can install on your system. Scroll to the right until you find «Russian.» Once you click on it, you’re done with the installation

Important! This is all you need to do to be able to type in Russian. You should not use option on that screen, that is, do not choose Russian layout as your default.

As it was noted above, if you see not one but several layouts in the list of active layouts for Russian, then you must remove unneeded ones and leave only one layout active for Russian language.

The way to switch keyboard from English typing («EN») to Russian typing («RU») is to press or to press pressing

Now you can switch your keybord to «RU» and start typing Russian Cyrillic!

Note. The steps above are for your own computer where you can perform such tune-up.
But you can type Russian even if you are in the businees center of a hotel and computer there does not allow any tune-up:
there are Web pages with so called «Virtual Russian Keyboard» that emulates your «home» input to let you type as you got used to.

See the information at the #v5 of this page.

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 can not use Windows Control Panel to enable regular keyboard tools for Russian, then it’s still Ok, there is an easy

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 that will bother the readers of that no, you can send normal Cyrillic text.

Virtual Keyboard allows you to input via regular keyboard (though mouse can be used, too) you can type choosing, in the menu below the image, same layout that you use (Standard or Phonetic explained in a parent page of this one)

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 as 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 to read the instruction on this page, for regular Windows keyboard tools activation via Control Panel.

modify it as you wish while the layouts on the Keyboard Web page are not modifiable.

Type russian on windows

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Russian in Browsers/Mail/News under Windows Unicode-related Cyrillic issues: MS Word ; Printing ; Copy/Paste Conversion between Cyrillic encodings Full Russification of Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista (how to work with Russian program and/or see Cyrillic in a file name) For developers : how to create a Cyrillic HTML file For developers : how to create a multilingual HTML file » More Cyrillization «: Q&A, links to other people pages Internationalization and Localization related sites How to contact me Russia-related Web Sites Cyrillic (Russian) in MS Windows (Reading and Writing; Encodings) The information on this site lets you read and write in Russian in most Windows applications such as Web browsers/e-mail, word processors, etc. This can be done in a standard, version of The information on this site lets you read and write in Russian in most general Windows applications such as Web browsers/e-mail, word processors, etc. This can be done in a standard, version of For subjects that are NOT discussed on my site (Cyrillic for UNIX or Macintosh computers; specialty programs that require a special tune-up for Russian, such as say Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Flash, etc.) please see the section that contains corresponding links to other people’s pages. different ways of representing Cyrillic letters, that is, different encodings . An encoding determines where, in the full coded character set, Cyrillic letters are located (what numeric codes are assigned to the letters). For example, on the Russian Web sites you may see encodings «Cyrillic(Windows-1251)» Sometimes it’s called «Cyrillic(Windows)» or or «Cyrillic(KOI8-R)» It’s often called just To represent Russian (and other Cyrillic letters) in Windows applications, Microsoft uses » Cyrillic(Windows-1251) » (CP-1251) encoding. When you see «Russian» in Windows Control Panel or keyboard tools or when you see «Cyrillic» in font , it really means Windows-1251 encoding. That is, Windows-1251 is a local encoding of a Windows-based PC. Other computer platforms use other local , their own encodings for Cyrillic (that is, same Cyrillic letter has a different code there) : «Mac Cyrillic» used by Apple, «Cyrillic(ISO-8859-5)» and used on Unix computers, «Cyrillic(CP866)» used under MS-DOS, etc. —> How to read and write in Russian using version of Windows: Reading in Russian To read in Russian, you need to have Russian fonts and become familiar with the encoding methods for Cyrillic letters. The corresponding instruction (including free Cyrillic fonts for download, if needed) for all versions of can be found in the section of this site called Writing in Russian First, you need to have Russian fonts (see above) Second, you need to activate Russian keyboard tools. The corresponding instruction for all versions of in the section If you need to input Russian, but can not activate of the for example, you are in an Internet cafe or in a then read the section of this site called conversion between Cyrillic encodings Below you can find two converters: CVT32 — works under Windows Convert 3.0d — MS DOS program Encoding Conversion — Windows program CVT32 Anton Lobastoff (Novosibirsk, Russia) developed two very useful programs for converting and Windows Clipboard content from one Cyrillic encoding to Alt (DOS-866). : CVT32 — 32-bit program for Windows 95/98/ME/NT CCVT, ver. 1.02 — 16-bit program for Windows 3.1, 3.11 You can download my local copies of Anton’s programs if the above links don’t work: CVT32.zip — for Windows 95/98/ME/NT CCVT102.zip — for Windows 3.1,3.11 Create a directory (folder) for Anton’s program, for example C:\RUSCVT . Open .ZIP file that you choose for your version of MS Windows in this directory(folder), and then read Anton’s a file with a .TXT extension in or CP-1251(win) encoding. After doing this, read the following instructions. How to easily call up the program later: Windows 3.1, 3.11 — an icon in Program Manager: Place your cursor on any icon in a Group where you want to put , for instance in Accessories . Select File / New in the Program Manager menu. Choose Program Item and press OK. In the next window, type c:\ruscvt\ccvt.exe on the and press OK . Now you have an icon for the program, for use whenever you want Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista — put an icon of CVT32 onto your Desktop : Click with right mouse button on any empty spot on your Desktop Select New / ShortCut in the menu In the next window, type c:\ruscvt\cvt32.exe or put this program into your Start/Programs menu: START / SETTINGS / TASKBAR Select Start Menu Programs tab Click Add In the next window, type c:\ruscvt\cvt32.exe Click Next and then double-click the menu where you want to place for example, PROGRAMS In the next window, type CVT32 and then click on Finish . Convert 3.0 by K. Gredeskoul is a nice software (running in ) for converting Russian text files from one encoding to CP-1251, Alternative(DOS CP-866), and even Transliteration. You can download my local copy of this conv30d.zip. I created a new Table for this program that allows me to quickly convert a file (for example, a book downloaded from the Web or a HTML file — my article in Russian) between KOI8-R and CP-1251(Windows) : KOI-1251.tab I also created 2 DOS batch files to simplify conversion: KOI-WIN.bat — from to CP-1251 WIN-KOI8.bat — from CP-1251 to KOI8-R You may download these 3 files. They are inside KOI-1251.zip . Just click on this underlined file name. After extracting these 3 files from KOI-1251.zip , you need to copy them into corresponding directories: KOI-1251.tab file — to your Convert package’s directory. Let’s assume that it is C:\CONVERT . Files KOI-WIN.bat and WIN-KOI8.bat — to your C:\WINDOWS directory. How to use Convert with my Table 1. From CP-1251 To — a new KOI8-R file will be created: 2. 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