Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Your Russian keyboard is unusable at all
We have 2 symbol sets in number row
But Shift+Figure set is under(!) Alt+Figure set! You need to turn up it! I would be in collaroration with Shift.
And we have 2 % with Shift+4 and Alt+5 but why??? You don't know any symbols anymore?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
Posted in error.
Go to system preferences/language & text/input sources and uncheck the box for Russian and check the box for Russian PC. Do you like that one better?
I told about % and Symbols I see written on my buttons on the keyboard. preferences/language & text/input sources can't change my keyboard.
ytpo wrote:
I told about % and Symbols I see written on my buttons on the keyboard. preferences/language & text/input sources can't change my keyboard.
If you want to ask Apple to change the printing on their keyboards, you can do that at
If you want what is already printed on the keyboard to match what the keys produce, that can be done by changing a small software file, and I may be able to help. Let me know.
PS I don't know if this is of any help, but upon closer examination of the Apple Russian keyboard printing, I see that the characters at the right side of a key are not intended provide info about option/alt characters. They are simply an indication of where the keyboard produces something different than the normal or shifted English layout.
So on the number row, the "№%:,.; to the right of 2345678 are supposed to tell you that in shifted mode you get these instead of what is printed above the numbers, namely @#$%^&*. You see the same kind of thing on the keys for бю/хъёэж, but there it tells you what you get in unshifted mode (instead of what is on the lower left side of the key).
I have no idea why Apple chose that system, but I think it has been this way for many years now.
Russian Keyboard
