Typing Russian or any other language

[Hamlet]

I've just found some online free Russian Keyboard software, you type in Russian, save as pdf, and then I guess you can cut/paste or whatever suits your needs into other docs or onto a forum like this, but what are the techy options for doing this type of thing?

How about Ancient Greek, for example, is there a specific programme to use with the Qwerty keyboard, or is a free or otherwise stand-alone system generally used by folks. I'd guess that you professional translators use bespoke-technology; but in that case what's the source of the short examples I see on here of say a few Russian words-- a programme within Windows/word? or a free converter programme like the one I've just been playing about on?

[Aldawen]

If you use Firefox as your internet browser I recommend this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ddon/abctajpu/ It provides a simple possibility to add quite a lot of accented letters and other international characters into forum posts or other input boxes on websites.

[Eric]

I shall have a good look at this add-ons thing that Aldawen mentions, as I too need accents all the time for names and words from languages such as Polish, Estonian, French, and other languages with accents (aka diacritical marks) over, under, and through letters.

[Hamlet]

If you use Firefox as your internet browser I recommend this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ddon/abctajpu/ It provides a simple possibility to add quite a lot of accented letters and other international characters into forum posts or other input boxes on websites.

yes ... I do use Firefox, so will look at that addon Aldawen, many thanks.

[Galatea92]

You can use Google Translate. Just select Russian from the list of languages to translate from, and click on the keyboard icon. You'll get a little Russian keyboard to type in your Russian text.

[Eric]

I don't use Firefox, so there's the rub for me. Most ways of obtaining accents for letters are long-winded. If I want to write a posting here about several writers from lands with diacritical marks, it would be a laborious process to have to do cut & paste operations for each accented letter of each name. That's why, although I'm rather a pedant in these matters, I don't bother with the cedilla, the slashed Polish ell, the Romanian wiggle under the ess, and so on, because my keyboard doesn't do them, and I simply can't be bothered. One day I'll try to construct a keyboard macro, if my system will allow it.

[Hamlet]

I don't use Firefox, so there's the rub for me. Most ways of obtaining accents for letters are long-winded. If I want to write a posting here about several writers from lands with diacritical marks, it would be a laborious process to have to do cut & paste operations for each accented letter of each name. That's why, although I'm rather a pedant in these matters, I don't bother with the cedilla, the slashed Polish ell, the Romanian wiggle under the ess, and so on, because my keyboard doesn't do them, and I simply can't be bothered. One day I'll try to construct a keyboard macro, if my system will allow it.

@Galatea92 -- thanks!

Eric, if you upload Firefox, you can still switch back to your preferred search engine, so it shouldn't be a problem, as far as I'm aware?

[Eric]

I'll try it, Hamlet.

[Hamlet]

Firefox seems to be fairly popular, I didn't change for a long time, in fact I have another laptop, older, where I still use the original browser...