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To install this on your system you needibus as your input method andibus-table engine installed (packagesibus andibus-table on Debian/Ubuntu-based distros).

If you haveibus-table installed, clone the repo and change directory to it:

$ git clone git@gitlab.com:silmeth/ms-cyrillic-ibus-table.git$ cd ms-cyrillic-ibus-table

then run as a root:

sudo ibus-table-createdb -n /usr/share/ibus-table/tables/interslavic-cyrillic.db -s ./interslavic-cyrillic.txt

and copy the icon to ibus icons dir:

sudo cp ./Cyrillic_letter_Yat.svg /usr/share/ibus-table/icons/

Finally restartibus:

ibus-restart

and you should be done and ready to choose this layout in youribus-config.

This is a table-based layout using the same input method that many languages of East Asia use:you type in Latin characters and they get converted to characters of the other writing system.

Here, many Latin letters get converted 1-to-1 to their equivalent Cyrillic characters, but if thereis some ambiguity, a list of possible candidates is present from which you may choose(using the 1–9 keys, or arrows) the one you need, eg. if you type in ‘i’, you’ll be displayed:

i (1/2)1. і2. и

You can use Polish-type orthography or characters with hačeks, if your default layout supports them,to input ш (sz,š,sx), ч (cz,č,cx), щ (szcz,šč,sxcx), ж (zs,zx,ż,ž), etc.

Hačeks on other letters are also supported, eg.ň will allow you to input нь and њ.

A subset of Old Cyrillic letters is also available – to write ѣ typeje`, to write ѧ, ѫ, ѩ, ѭ typee~, u~, je~, ju~(or, if your default keyboard layout have them,ę, ą, ǫ, ų, ję, ją, jǫ, jų, etc. are also supported.For old yotted letters ѥ, ꙗ, ю type|e, |a, |o orje`, ja`, ju, etc.

You can commit some characters earlier to stop them from combining into other characters, eg to write језык typej.ezyk,to write шчасце typesz.czasce.

To temporarily turn off the table-based input method (and use your default layout instead) hit Left Shift once,to go back to writing in Cyrillic, hit Left Shift again.

This layout is heavily inspired by theibus-table-ipa-x-sampa layout.

The icon the non-copyrighted`Cyrillic letter Yat.svgfile from Wikimedia Commons.