On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 08:19:00PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I hope to purchase native "Nordic" and "Cyrillic/Russian" > USB keyboards. > > I exchange emails with Swedish and Finnish writers, and > recently a Berlin author writing a Russian language book. > Multinational geekiness for a monolingual American. > > Google translate is often helpful, and I can cut and paste > from that, but sometimes I need to type the special letters > in these languages; remembering and typing the digraphs is > a pain.
------ For all of you cheerfully answering the wrong question, not about KEYBOARDS, I thought I would repeat it, above. I will clarify a bit - Lately I've encountered MANY pages of photocopied Russian and Cyrillic, some sent by my respondents, some with the name Кит Лофстром in them, and I want to suss out roughly what they are before I select a few for professional translation, the $$$ kind. Or use the impose-on-my-Russian-speaking-friends kind of translation. A keyboard with "native" Cyrillic key-caps would be helpful for visually transcribing a few lines of text ... with trial-and-error for the characters that are so smudged that they will require a few guesses. Ditto for Swedish and Finnish. I can indeed chord a US-English keyboard, SLOWLY generating alt-alphabet characters as some respondents suggest, but my time is worth more than that. I could even read a table and type the ISO hexadecimal, wasting even more time. But I am working too many hours as it is, and if I am willing to spend spend $17,000 for a new roof next week, I can spend $50-$100 on an alternate alphabet keyboard if that saves me many hours. As the list conversation drifted off into the weeds, I punted and ordered a Nordic keyboard for $40 yesterday. But ... it may not generate two-byte Unicode, or it may not signal its "Nordic-ness" to the computer. Perhaps I wasted my money, along a two week wait for the delivery time from Europe. But if that Nordic keyboard can be made to work the way I want, generating Nordic characters from Nordic-topped key clicks, in parallel with a US-ASCII keyboard generating US-ASCII characters, I will try punting again, and order a more-costly Cyrillic keyboard, and wait even longer for that to be delivered, perhaps purchased from some dodgy central European vendor who also buys baby-killing gas for the P-twit in the East. ---- Or perhaps ... someone can answer the question about two keyboards at once with different character sets. I know I can connect two US-ASCII USB keyboards into one computer, and type the US-ASCII letters from either keyboard. What happens if I pair US-ASCII with "Euro", perhaps with two different logins? If that won't work on one computer, perhaps I could plug two keyboards into two different computers, re-configure the Other computer for "native" Swedish or Finnish or Cyrillic, and ssh the result to the US-ASCII computer. But Linux is multilingual, and its originator is a Swedish-speaking Finn. WWLD? What Would Linus Do? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
