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furyou_gaijin
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Message 17 of 19

19 December 2007 at 12:07pm | IP Logged

PaulGor wrote:

That is, a person sits down in an Internet cafe and starts typing at once - exactly as at home! Without the need to learn - as in translit.ru case - "correct translit combinations" and "work around for special cases" (like 'vyuchil' or 'major' or 'shodil', etc.)

Here is the newest of such Virtual Keyboards (supports Russian and Ukrainian) which provides "typing as at home" (it has 2 UI variants - English and Russian):

http://Kbd.RusWin.net

I don't think I've even seen the inside of an Internet cafe but the provided method is very impressive indeed - all Russian-language forums should start linking to it instead of Translit which produces abominable results.

Too bad it doesn't seem to work on the BlackBerry, though... :-(((
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PaulGor
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Message 18 of 19

19 December 2007 at 1:26pm | IP Logged

> Too bad it doesn't seem to work on the BlackBerry, though... :-(((

Yep, browsers on cell phones and such are NOT capable of needed functionality.

On the other hand, hand-held devices (PDA) are Ok - people use http://porusski.net on them.

Internet-cafe was just one of the examples of the situation when system tools can not be used. Other situations are:

- you connect to Internet in the business center of a hotel
- you are at work, BUT you don't have Administrative Rights to that computer
- you are in the library or lab in an University and computer is Linux or Mac
- etc

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furyou_gaijin
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Message 19 of 19

19 December 2007 at 2:53pm | IP Logged

PaulGor wrote:

- you are at work, BUT you don't have Administrative Rights to that computer

That's just bad people skills. :-)

PaulGor wrote:

- you are in the library or lab in an University and computer is Linux or Mac

What's wrong with Mac's in-built Cyrillic support? :-)

Anyway, I'm not disputing the usefulness of the tool - it speaks for itself. Also, it's rather elegantly designed and
the url is easy to remember.

Well done to you, if that's your product!

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