Phonetic keyboard layout Phonetic keyboard layout A phonetic keyboard layout is a setup in which the letters of a language correspond to the keys in the keyboard layout for another language and assumes a one-to-one correspondence between letters in the languages that is based on their sound. Russian has two popular keyboard layouts: The Cyrillic letters are on the same keys as similarly-sounding Roman letters: A-А, Б-B, В-V, Г-G, Д-D, Ф-F, K-K, O-O and so on. There are Russian phonetic layouts based on the QWERTY layout and others based on other localized layouts. The Russian phonetic layout is especially suited for foreigners studying
Keyboard layout reference number, "raw keycodes", and these numbers are what is sent to the computer when a key is pressed or released.) The keyboard and the computer each have no information about what is marked on that key, and it could equally well be the letter "A" or the digit "9". The user of the computer is requested to identify the "functional layout" of the keyboard when installing the operating system. Today, most keyboards use one of three different mechanical layouts, usually referred to as simply "ISO" (ISO/IEC 9995-2), "ANSI" (ANSI-INCITS 154-1988), and "JIS" (JIS X 6002-1980), referring roughly to the