Monday, November 26, 2007

OS X 10.5 Leopard: Fixing the Russian PC Keyboard

Somehow Apple forgot to include the character ё (U+0451) in the Russian PC keyboard layout, at least as far as the ANSI physical keyboards are concerned (whether it shows up on the extra key on an ISO keyboard I don't know). If you need a replacement, you can download the RussianPC or RussianPC2 layouts from my iDisk.

The Russian and Russian Phonetic layouts do not have this problem.
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15 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 15, 2007 at 5:52:00 AM MST

    thanks

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  2. AnonymousMarch 11, 2008 at 3:37:00 PM MDT

    Confirmed that the extra ISO key is indeed ë in that layout. (You can get a Mac in the US with an ISO keyboard--in the build-to-order options, select Spanish for the keyboard. In Canada, pick French.)

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  3. noneJune 29, 2008 at 5:53:00 AM MDT

    i don't see your idisk content :(

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  4. noneSeptember 20, 2008 at 2:00:00 AM MDT

    how i can addopt your layout for Tiger?

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  5. Tom GeweckeSeptember 20, 2008 at 4:17:00 AM MDT

    Layouts like this should work in Tiger just like they do in Leopard. Do you have a problem?

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  6. noneSeptember 20, 2008 at 11:12:00 AM MDT

    yep, that layout is disabled (gray color) in layouts menu.

    i found another in http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=baa962a61fc0abaf0b828752db727895&showtopic=1884&st=0&p=12230&#entry12230

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  7. Tom GeweckeSeptember 20, 2008 at 11:18:00 AM MDT

    Sounds like you are trying to use the PC layout in an obsolete app like Appleworks or WordX. Try the PC2 layout.

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  8. noneSeptember 21, 2008 at 7:24:00 AM MDT

    I tried it with firefox3. booth RussianPC and RussianPC2 does't work with Tiger.

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  9. Tom GeweckeSeptember 21, 2008 at 7:58:00 AM MDT

    On my Firefox 3.01 and OS X 10.4.10 they both work just fine. Do the layouts work for you in TextEdit? Safari?

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  10. AnonymousOctober 19, 2008 at 7:48:00 PM MDT

    Thanks. Works fine on Leopard 10.5.5. But what the difference between this two layouts? Looks like they are same

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  11. Tom GeweckeOctober 19, 2008 at 8:55:00 PM MDT

    If I remember right, they are the same, but one is "unicode" and one is "cyrillic". The unicode one will not work on old apps like Appleworks or Word X.

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  12. LydiaAugust 8, 2009 at 9:37:00 AM MDT

    Tom - just giving you the heads-up that there is a mistake in your Russian layouts as well... True, the missing ë is back, but you have @ instead of № ("3" key)...

    Could you come up with yet another fix, please? :-)

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  13. Tom GeweckeAugust 9, 2009 at 7:08:00 AM MDT

    Lydia -- Fixed now I hope.

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  14. UnknownJanuary 11, 2010 at 12:35:00 AM MST

    Tom,

    I noticed that edit shortcuts aren't working in your keyboard layouts (apple-a, apple-c, apple-v, etc). I dug around and found some keyboard layout that I used with my old mac (10.4). It can be found here: http://aggubin.org/pub/Russian-winkeys.keylayout

    I compared yours and mine and found several differences, however I am not sure which are responsible for shortcuts, could you tell me?

    Sincerely,

    Alexander

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  15. Tom GeweckeJanuary 11, 2010 at 6:09:00 AM MST

    shurik - sorry, I've never been able to figure out why the shortcuts work or don't in different layouts.

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