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General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Numsgil on March 09, 2005, 03:45:58 AM
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This is mostly just curiosity, but how do you write non english into a computer? If you have a roughly latin language, the standard english keyboard is pretty close to what you need anyway, but what about Russian?
How does that work?
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They have different symbols on the keyboard.
You should see a Japanese computer. They have about 4 symbols per key and have to use a lot of shift/alt/ctrl functions to get them.
scary
:D PY :D
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You should see a l337 keyboard. It has the same amount of keys, but half the letters. Mostly made up of "omgrofl!!!" "lollerskate!" and "d00d". :)
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I was actually being serious though.
I have worked in Tokyo and seen these people using them.
<_< PY <_<
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Oh, not trying to discredit you, I've seen them too.
One of many reasons why I like to stick to the good ol' romance languages (or strings thereof).
You can actually type in other languages that use somewhat of a latin alphabet (a, b, c, d, etc.), the letters with ` or ~ or such above the heads can be inserted with MS Word (Insert > Symbol) or entered with an alt-code (I.e. Alt+168, which is an upside-down question mark: ¿).
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For Russian it is not the symbols "on" the keyboard, but rather how computer interprets the same keystrokes. I can switch between English and Russian by pressing a certain combination of keys (left Alt + Shift) and the same keys will now produce different symbols. Sometimes people put two sets of symbols on the keyboard, say English in black and a little lower russian in red, but I learned to type in Russian without looking at the keyboard, so mine looks exactly as any other english-language one.