If you can add russian language support to your windows andĮxecute accessories->accessibility->on screen keyboard. More modern Virtual Keyboards offer BOTH ways of input - by mouse and via regular physical keyboard.īut even modern Keyboards (made in 2001-2002) have 'bad', non-handy features and deficiencies, for example:ī) Yandex Keyboard and its several serious disadvantages - (only in Russian, sorry!)Ĭ) Russian Keyboard - side-mode (not a main one) on and its several serious disadvantages - (only in Russian, sorry!)ĭ) Russian-speaking people in Israel and some other countries complained that all Virtual Keyboards assume that the system keyboard of that computer is in 'English, USA' mode while they often find themselves in a different situation when say system keyboard is in 'Fr' mode and one can not switch it.įor both Standard and Phonetic (asking people what is the layout they prefer as Phonetic) layouts -įor Spanish, Italian, German, French, Swedish, Hebrew, and British - see explanation here:

If you are curious what those non-handy things were:Ī) Very old ones provided only mouse-based input which was VERY bad - in Russian-speaking forums around the globe people complained that it's too tedious, good only to type one-two words but not to participate in a discussion or to write an e-mail. It's the best nowadays not because the author me - is very smart, not at all - it's because I first (before starting to write the code) carefully looked at probably all existing Virtual Keyboards (saw at least 20!) to avoid deficiencies and non-handy things I saw in them. (or directly to the Russian-interface page - ) 1) The newest and the most handy at the moment Virtual Russian Keyboard is here (works under Opera, Mozilla/Firefox, Internet Explorer):

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