On 09/24/2016 04:10 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this point > of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign > fonts "working", but that is another story.) > > Advice please on the best way to achieve this for him. I.e., what do those > of > you doing this or similar find works comfortably.
There's ibus and the ibus-table-translit package, so all GUI applications that support ibus [1] will allow you to enter cyrillic characters via typing latin equivalents. (ibus is a generic input framework originally designed for complex scripts, such as Chinese, but now supports a lot of things, just search for packages with ibus-table- in their name. Btw. there's also a package for traditional Russian, if you're interested in really old writings. For any modern Russian I would recommend just using the aforementioned ibus-table-translit though.) For example, typing "b" will give you a б, typing "v" will give you a в, typing "ya" will give you a я, typing "yo" will give you a ё, and so on. ibus is not completely trivial to setup, but it's not terribly difficult either. It does take a bit of getting used to, but if you switch the method back to "English", the keyboard will behave as you'd normally expect. Alternatively, there's something similar but as a website, called http://translit.net/ which does the same in the Browser (Javascript required) - most Russian people I know use that regularly. Also, in case this is archived and people find this: for Mac OS X user there appears to be https://github.com/archagon/cyrillic-transliterator which I believe does the same thing that ibus-table-translit does. (Never tried it though.) Hope that helps. Regards, Christian [1] See https://wiki.debian.org/I18n/ibus for details. Also, ibus-setup is your friend.
