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Russian and Ukrainian

Switch on Русский or Українська and the keys show Cyrillic letters in the ЙЦУКЕН order of a computer keyboard. The rows have 12, 11 and 9 letters, so the keys are a little narrower than the Latin ones.

Russian:

й ц у к е н г ш щ з х ъ
ф ы в а п р о л д ж э
я ч с м и т ь б ю

Ukrainian:

й ц у к е н г ш щ з х ї
ф і в а п р о л д ж є
я ч с м и т ь б ю

Everything else works as in English:

  • Tap the letters, roughly. Autocorrect fixes the word on space, and the strip offers words. Autocorrect and suggestions
  • Flick up for a capital.
  • Flick down for the digit or mark drawn under the letter. The top row gives 1 to 0, then = and % on its last two keys.
  • ё comes with the words in Russian: type е and autocorrect puts in the word with ё. Hold е for ё on its own.
  • ґ in Ukrainian comes with the words too. Hold г for it on its own. ї and є have their own keys.