artemist2d ago

should i actually learn the russian keyboard layout for typing cyrillic, or should i just use яверты (us qwerty, but each letter is replaced with a phonetically similar russian letter)

i'm already using qwerty phonetic inputs for japanese and chinese, but those are common.

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i cannot help but read з as "russian letter three".

especially when majuscule they are hard to distinguish: З vs 3

Mar 22 at 10:33pmWeb
Show threadmaxine 🇵🇸2d ago
@artemist that’s a backwards epsilon that
Show threadWORM MOTHER2d ago

@artemist idk about ergonomics, but I’ve only ever seen russian speakers use йцукен. I use qwerty for en/de and йцукен for ru/ua. I’m not great at it, but my touch typing speed in йцукен is ~half of my qwerty speed

also I think 3 vs З is usually just figured out from context. flat top Ʒ definitely helps with this