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On 12/18/2014 11:02 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:


So often the answer is dead simple once the question is understood:

> Just hold down the "shift to English" key and type.  In the case of

> Did you read my messages? ***RUSSIANS ENTER THIS KIND OF THINGS USING ENGLISH KEYBOARD LAYOUT***.
>

> You'll see they have keys that have latin top left and cyrillic bottom
> right. Quite how they switch between the two modes, I can't tell you but
> they can.
>
... there.  Non Latin keyboards normally have the ability to switch to a
universal ASCII/Latin/English mode, which is required for the input of special
characters, like '\n', and would in fact be used for all shell programming since
zsh keywords and such are not translated into other languages or alphabets
in any case. Simple: everyone codes in English.

Thank you gentlemen.