The following are transliterated (also known as phonetic or homophonic) keyboards. That is to say, the Cyrillic characters are mapped to the closest sounding Latin characters. Of course, blood can easily be spilled over decisions on placement of those letters with no Latin equivalent. Therefore, to keep the peace, I have designed three slightly different variations to amuse, confuse, confound, and bedevil. These are optimized for Ukrainian language use, with the Ukrainian character set immediately available, and the differing Russian characters, as well as alternative placements of some of the Ukrainian characters, available via the Option key.

The Caps Lock key will alternate between the Cyrillic and Latin character set.

For access by all users of your computer, install these keyboards into:

/Library/Keyboard Layouts/

For access only by the current user of the computer, install these keyboards into:

~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/

Kyiv (Київ)

Lviv (Львів)

Poltava (Полтава)

Download entire set here:

ZMTranslitKeys.zip

To turn on the keyboards for use, see Start

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