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Dear Michael Kolodin,
Thank you for your two replies of 19 August. I became
aware of them only a few days back on visiting the
archive:
https://info.vsu.ru/Lists/CyrTeX-en/List.html
<< :) Alas, it [MS Win cp1251] HAD variants, because
\"E, \"e were sometimes place in different places. >>
Well, well, and your keyboard seems to be an example
of that:
> cyrillic unshifted:...
>
> £1234567890-=\
> ÊÃÕËÅÎÇÛÝÚÈß
> ÆÙ×ÁÐÒÏÌÄÖÜ
> ÑÞÓÍÉÔØÂÀ.
>
> cyrillic shifted:
>
> ³!"?;%:?*()_+/
> êãõëåîçûýúèÿ
> æù÷áðòïìäöü
> ñþóíéôøâà,
<< (you need to have Cyrillic driver to read this, note:
the same driver as I have :) >>
Let us test that. Does my ASCII-Cyrillic utility
correctly decodes your keyboard as:
> !cyrillic !unshifted:...
>
> !^^a31234567890-=\
> KGXLEOZY'EQI'A
> 'Z'WCBRTPMD'TH
> S'UUNJFWVA.
>
> !cyrillic !shifted:
>
> !^^b3!"?;%:?*()_+/
> kgxleozy'eqi'a
> 'z'wcbrtpmd'th
> s'uunjfwva,
It would seem that \"E='O and \"e='o are in TeX3
notation the octets ^^a3 and ^^b3 which are exotic J and
i respectively in the table for cp1251 that I posted, while
\"E='O and \"e='o are are ^^a8 and ^^b8 in that table.
Clearly some flexibility in en/de-coding is wanted!
I hope TeX will be able to offer that for ASCII-Cyrillic.
> but in Cyrillic version the layout of chacarters differs
> fro that is printed on the keys, I had to write
> characters on the keys myself... :(
Ouch!. But I mentioned that the French keyboard is a
disaster for scientific users in several respects.
I am grateful for your spelling out the perfectly standard
nature of Latin (=English=programmer) registers of your
keyboard:
latin unshifted:
`1234567890-=\
qwertyuiop[]
asdfghjkl;'
zxcvbnm,./
latin shifted:
~!@#$%^&*()_+|
QWERTYUIOP{}
ASDFGHJKL:"
ZXCVBNM<>?
That is the standard US keyboard offering excellent access
to ASCII. I once purchased a US keyboard for
Macintosh and it is almost identical -- except that the
key with TeX's backslash is at the end of the second row
not the first. West European keyboards are not as good
for programmers and TeX users!
I confess that I was toying with the idea of using ` in
ASCII-Cyrillic where I currently use "!". That would
have placed all three escape characters ' ! \ of
ASCII-Cyrillic on the unshifted register of the
US keyboard.
Thanks again for your expos'e!
Laurent Siebenmann
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