Hi,
Vadim Zima <va*@zima.net> wrote in message news:<BBD5DCC3.3732%va*@zima.net>...
How would you approach this task?
I have a phpBB forum on my site. The majority of participants are Russians
living in the US, who don't know Russian keyboard layout.
Is it possible to provide them with some sort of a button, in the posting
edit window to convert latin characters into cyrillic characters?
TIA for any ideas and/or links.
Sure and you even don't need to use PHP - JavaScript is enough
(PHP would be an overkill making a trip to the server to convert the
letter).
There are couple dozens JavaScript programs that do what you want,
but mine is the latest one :) and thus IMHO better, because I tried
to avoid common problems/inconveniences I saw on older sites.
My code is under GPL, so you can copy/modify/use it - just
show that I am the original author :)
Here it is - "Russian Virtual Keyboard" that can be used
say in an Internet-cafe:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...r/onscreen.htm
One thing to add - I too live in the US so I need to let you
know (and you probably need to let know your users) that
nowadays - unlike say 1998 - it's *very* simple to type
in Russian if it's _your own_ computer - it takes 5 minutes
to activate MS Windows keyboard tools and then type in Russian
directly in any application without going to a Web page such
as mine for a conversion from latin to Cyrillic.
I do know that some people just do not know that it's so
simple nowadays and this is why they use some 3rd party
tools (as mine) even on their own computer...
MS Windows keyboard tools setup is desribed in the
"Russian Keyboard: standard and phonetic" section
of my site.
--
Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/