

Updated May/16 - fixed bug where "a/A" where English characters, not Ukrainian characters This keyboard will be easier to use than the Microsoft default Ukrainian keyboard in which you would have to memorize a completely new layout and develop a multi-key solution for typing '?' (ge) which MS seems to have forgotten. The instructions below all install this keyboard. Installing a Phonetic KeyboardĪs much of the keyboard as possible is phonetic, only the highlighted letter placements must be memorized. To get your computer to 'type' Ukrainian is actually quite easy and in the new Windows versions is included in the standard installation. Since other products still differ in their levels of this standard support, it may be much simpler to adopt an all Microsoft approach to your Ukrainian computing needs and thus saving yourself some headaches. The widely accepted solution can be attributed to Microsoft's monopoly and the resulting forced standard. Now with a greater sharing of computer files, emails, and web pages, a global standard has emerged. This has served us well up to now for the localized applications we used to print out Ukrainian documents. Many of us had adopted the solution offered by Key Co. Unfortunately, until recently Ukrainian language encoding on PC's was not standardized and it was difficult to communicate unless you were using the same agreed upon solution.

Instructions for PCs running one of the versions of standard Windows operating systems sold in North America and Apple Macintosh computers running OS X are available. Following the general introduction you will find information on various aspects of making your computer "speak" Ukrainian.
