Russian Keyboard

[Son of Clyde]

Irana's son was given a "Solid Tek" English/Russian keyboard.

How do you turn on the Russian keys? Is it a pc adjustment and not a keyboard adjustment? Do you not actually type in Russian letters only use them as a reference point?

There is no key for Russian to English, Shift or Caps Lock only changes from lower to upper case English letters.

 

[aikorob]

Clyde,

You have to have Russian language support enabled on your PC. Simple enough if you have the original WinXP and Office CD (you may or may not need these-depends on what cab files were loaded on your computer at set up). Look in control panel ->   Regional and language options. Once you have loaded the keyboard driver and enabled Russian language; it is simple to shift from English to Russian (on my pc; I use left-shifh+alt to toggle between them.
This is what I did last year when I brought a lady over, and she had no problem.

[Bruno]

And if you use linux, it is good to make a account for each user... you, wife and child... choose the language for each account... not only keyboard will be support but almost all application will be with menu in the choosen language...

This is true for Debian and all other full distro ( some free distro have not the international disk )...

Take care that linux support regional language... US english is not UK english... Dutch is not Flamish, Russian is not Ukrainian...

PS : Change the keyboard before boot... if it is a USB keyboard, no problem but some change needed in the bios ( option : alt on error > none in place of keyboard )

[ielocal]

Clyde,

You have to have Russian language support enabled on your PC. Simple enough if you have the original WinXP and Office CD (you may or may not need these-depends on what cab files were loaded on your computer at set up). Look in control panel ->   Regional and language options. Once you have loaded the keyboard driver and enabled Russian language; it is simple to shift from English to Russian (on my pc; I use left-shifh+alt to toggle between them.
This is what I did last year when I brought a lady over, and she had no problem.

 

This is basically the procedure and will work with the English keyboards (typing in Russian) as well. If your updates are current and you've installed the "Service Pack 2" update, the language options are already there. These will also allow "her" to use some of the MS Office applications to work in Russian. Although, I couldn't get the menu's to display in Russian, typing letters would work. I just may not have spent enough time on the conversion though.

-ielocal

[ConnerVT]

 Although, I couldn't get the menu's to display in Russian, typing letters would work. I just may not have spent enough time on the conversion though.

For foriegn language menus and dialog boxes, you need to install the appropriate langiuage MUI (Multilingual User Interface) for Windows and Office.  MUI packs only work in WinXP Pro and WinXP Pro Corp, not in XP Home.

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/faqs/muifaq.mspx