-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 gaskavahkku, juovlamÃnu 18. b. 2002 19.59, Curtis Vaughan don ÄÃllet: > According to some advice I got, there should be a file ru_yawerty in > /etc/X11/xkb/symbols, which apparently is for a Russian phonetic > keyboard. However, in my installation of Debian 3.0, KDE 2, there is no > such file. So, I found the file on the internet, and copied it over to > this directory. > > According to the advice, I then need to issue the command: > setxkbmap ru_yawerty > > which I did. After which I could no longer even type anything. So, > either I got the wrong ru_yawerty file or something else needs to be > done. Also, I need to somehow use the yawerty file for Russian and not > for English. When I issued the aforementioned command, I couldn't type > regardless of whether I chose English or Russian. > > Curtis There has to be something with your locale settings, LANG, LC_ALL, etc.
Take a look at russian howto's to solve this problem. Here are some links I found after having 'googled'. http://www.impb.ru/LINUX/DOC/HOW_TO/ http://www.inp.nsk.su/~baldin/Cyrillic-HOWTO-russian/Cyrillic-HOWTO-russian.html Hope this can help solve your problem:-) BÃrre Gaup, Kiruna, Sweden -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ANTPAvz3WeWvzrERAh+hAJ9zles8ubucyL4BPLLQLkBy2TSmUgCg3c1K o9qoyq4H76kPS8zX65eeN54= =bsYS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
