Digging a little bit deeper, it's just a bit of an oddball... the layout appears to be a slight modification on the Russian Phonetic. This indicates it was likely used outside the CIS by someone who may not have been a native Russian speaker. Per Wikipedia: "The Russian phonetic keyboard layout (also called homophonic or transliterated) is widely used *outside* Russia, where normally there are no Russian letters drawn on keyboard buttons. This layout is made for typists who are more familiar with other layouts, like the common English QWERTY keyboard, and follows the Greek and Armenian layouts in placing most letters at the corresponding Latin letter locations. It is famous among both native speakers and people who use, teach, or are learning Russian, ..." Hope this is not too OT/TMI for my fellow list members; I was just a bit intrigued by this one. I wonder what application it served during its useful life. Best, Sean On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote: