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I wrote concerning my way of keyboarding Russian Cyrillic 
on a Mac physical Keyboard for latin script: 
 
 > To get the 33 letters of the Russian alphabet one types 
 > respectively: 
 >  
 >      a b v g d e 'o 'z z i j k l m n o p r 
 >      s t u f x 't 'c w 'w q y h 'e 'u 'a     
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 > The Russian Cyrillic letters \cyra, \cyrb, \cyrv, ... ,  
 > \cyrya appear on the screen.  The eight "doublets" 'o 'z 't  
 > 'c 'e 'u 'a  each produce *one* Cyrillic character via the  
 > Mac's official "dead-key" mechanism --- which all West  
 > Europeans employ in typing some or all accented characters;  
 > the "Norwegian-Russian" KCHR resource configures this  
 > mechanism.  
 
     I should have also mentioned a (compatible) alternative to 
this "dead-key" typing of the eight Russian characters accessed 
above using  dead-key ' . Instead of typing  'a  (two 
successive keystrokes) to get the Cyrillic glyph \cyrya on 
screen, one can type 
 
          Alt  a  
 
i.e. lowercase keystroke  a  while the modifier key  Alt  is 
depressed.  Sililarly for the other 7.  Some typists dislike 
dead-keys; here is a reasonable alternative with equal mnemonic  
value. 
 
Cheers 
 
Laurent S. 
 
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