Ukrainian Phonetic Keyboard For Mac

Are there any Ukrainian phonetic keyboard drivers for OSX available for download, whether for free or at modest cost? The single Ukrainian keyboard driver which comes with OSX has a non-phonetic layout, and I would like to have a keyboard driver which allows me to use a QWERTY-type layout. As an example, an English 'S' key would type a Ukrainian 'C', and an English 'N' would type a Ukrainian 'H'.
The cyrillic keyboard layouts that I have seen are all for Mac Classic (OS9), or are not specifically for Ukrainian. Is is possible to create your own keyboard layouts using OSX? If so, how?
Thanks.
PowerBook G4- Al Mac OS X (10.4.7)
PowerBook G4- Aluminum Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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About Ukrainian

Although Ukrainian is an East Slavic language like Russian, it has a different grammar and writing system. However the long and sometimes violent history between Ukraine and Russia has meant that the history of both languages are intertwined.
Note: Older stages of Ukranian may sometimes be called Ruthenian.

Font Recommendations

Ukranian Cyrillic Alphabet

Please note that the Ukraniain alphabet includes characters not used in Russian such as Ґ, І, Ї, Є, ‘ . Therefore fonts and utilities that may work for Russian may or may not be a good fit for Ukrainian.

Recommended Fonts

The fonts below support a wide range of characters including historical characters and those from Central Asian Cyrillic languages.

Common System Fonts

The most recent version of these fonts support a

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Microsoft: Arial/Arial Unicode, Times New Roman, Calibri, Cambria, Book Antiqua, Courier,
Apple: Lucida Grande
Others: Helvetica (Neue), Palatino

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Third Party Fonts

Kodeks German Medieval Slavicists Server

Typing Cyrilic

Activating Keyboards

Both Windows and Macintosh provide a wide range of keyboard utilities which can be activated to allow a user to type in a particular Cyrillic language.

Note that in many cases the layout will match that used in Ukraine or the former Soviet Union.

Transliterated Keyboard Options

If you wish to use a transliterated (or phonetic/QWERTY) layout in which Cyrillic letters are mapped to the closest English keyboard counterpart (e.g. the D key would be Cyrillic Д), the options are more limited.

Below are some options which can be downloaded, however not all options have been fully tested.

External Transliterated Keyboard Downloads

Kansas University Ukrainian KU Homophonic Keyboard (Windows 7)
PLAST Ukrainian Scouting Australia (Windows)
PLAST Ukrainian Scouting Canada (Macintosh)

Web Development and Language Codes

This section presents information specific to Ukrainian. For general information about developing non-English Web sites, see the Encoding Tutorial or the Web Layout sections.

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