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(or if it's Classic View - Start / Settings / Control Panel) How to activate standard Russian Keyboard layout Here is how standard, regular Russian keyboard layout looks like (location of letters and symbols - in red): alternative - 'Russian, Typewriter' where digits are typed via Shift as on old mechanical typewriters in USSR.Windows offers two Russian keyboard layouts in OOB system (as you can see on Microsoft page mentioned above): The steps use standard Russian Keyboard layout as an example ( 'RU' becomes available in the taskbar via Alt+Shift switch from 'EN'),īut they are the same for any other European language. The steps needed to access Keyboard Layout section of Control Panel do vary from one Windows version to another and all variants are listed below. The system must be presented with only one active layout per language otherwise how Windows would know what symbol to show when a button is pressed Layout is selected for the Input Language. (for example, check if it's 'US English' and not 'British English' for 'EN' if errouneously Shift-2 gives a quote instead of if user finds that say something is wrong/strange in the typing, s/he may want to visit that section to make sure that only one Here is Microsoft page that shows the layouts for each and every Input Language in the OOB system:Ī user opens Keyboard Layouts section of Control Panel if there is a need to add a layout or to check that desired layout is selected as active That is, for a given Input Language, system could offer several different layouts (different location of letters and symbols). Keyboard layout specifies how letters and symbols are located on the keyboard buttons for a given Input Language.įor example, when Input Language is English (shows as 'EN' in the taskbar), Windows offers a set of layouts to choose from: This page is a part of my site's Chapter 'Russian keyboard: standard and phonetic' How to use Keyboard Layout section of Control Panel to activate Russian keyboard Russian Keyboard Layout under Windows 7,8,10, Vista, XP

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