See section Support for the Scandinavian Languages for a general explanation of keyboard remapping.
For Russian it not only makes sense to remap the keyboard. You have to do it, in order to get the Cyrillic character set from an ordinary QWERTY keyboard. AUC TeX will map QWERTY into the Russian keyboard layout YAWERTY, either with AMS Cyrillic encoding or the KOI8 character set encoding. The standard Russian keyboard layout JCUKEN is not implemented, contributions welcome.
The Russian character set encodings were kindly contributed by Justin R. Smith `<jsmith@king.mcs.drexel.edu>', please direct questions to him.
You can get a Cyrillic font for X11 from Serge Vakulenko `<vak@kiae.su>'. You will need an Emacs capable of displaying 8 bit characters to use it.
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| English Russian Mixed |
| keyboard keyboard keyboard |
| |
| qwerty jcuken yawerty |
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| q Q i-short I-short ya Ya |
| w W tse Tse ve ve |
| e E u U ie Ie |
| r R ka Ka ar Er |
| t T ie Ie te Te |
| y Y en En iery Iery |
| u U ghe Ghe u U |
| i I sha Sha i I |
| o O shcha Shcha o O |
| p P z Z pe Pe |
| a A ef Ef a A |
| s S iery Iery es Es |
| d D ve ve de De |
| f F a A ef Ef |
| g G pe Pe ge Ge |
| h H er Er kha Kha |
| j J o O i-short I-short |
| k K el El ka Ka |
| l L de De el El |
| z Z ya Ya z Z |
| x X che Che ier Ier |
| c C es Es tse Tse |
| v V em Em zhe Zhe |
| b B i I be Be |
| n N te Te en En |
| m M ierik Ierik em Em |
| |
| [ { kha Kha sha Sha |
| ] } ier Ier shcha Shcha |
| ; : zhe Zhe |
| ' " e-rev E-rev |
| , < be Be |
| . > yu Yu |
| ` ~ yu Yu |
| 3 # 3 ier |
| 4 $ 4 " |
| 5 % 5 : |
| 6 ^ 6 , |
| 7 & 7 . |
| = + che Che |
| \ | e-rev E-rev |
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