--- James Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for responding, Tony. I did manage to find > out about, and > experiment with xsetkbmap. It does, in fact, allow > me to enter text in > Russian into OOo like you say. I'm delighted with > that.
Terrific! Glad to be of service! > However, it > makes it impossible to type anything into the xterm > (guess there's no > Cyrillic font for it to show?). Yes, OO is very good at managing the fonts itself, for xterm - note that if you want to use unicode you need to use a term that understands unicode - uxterm is the one. Then you'll need the cyrillic fonts, I don't use cyrillic myself, but try searching for cyrillic fonts and install: apt-get install xfonts-efont-unicode apt-get install xfonts-efont-unicode-ib I'm not 100% that that will do the trick, as I say, I don't use cyrillic myself. But I was able to > back out of that by > cutting and pasting "xsetkbmap us." Problem now is > how to get a different > keyboard layout. "xsetkbmap ru" gets the > traditional Russian layout, > whereas I am used to the phonetic one. I've > searched a bit on layouts to > see if I could discover a name for a phonetic > Russian keyboard layout, but > thus far without success: any suggestions on finding > where their names > might be listed? Again I don't use cyrillic so I can only give you a few pointers. Emacs lists the following possible names for cyrillic keyboards: cyrillic-beylorussian cyrillic-jcuken cyrillic-jis-russian cyrillic-macedonian cyrillic-serbian cyrillic-translit cyrillic-translit-bulgarian cyrillic-ukrainian cyrillic-yawerty I'm not sure that will help (I know my girlfriend likes cyrillic-yawerty for her Russian homework :) ) As for X the keyboards, they are all in /etc/X11/xkbd The ones I have listed are ru, ge_ru and ru_yawerty. You might find more if you do apt-cache search. Also, it seems that if you use the Gnome desktop all this keyboard switching is easier, me I use WindowMaker. Hope that helps By the way, I don't understand > this key sequence from > your reply: "AltGr+." Can you explain which > keyboard keys you're talking > about? I know alt, of course, but what is "Gr"? > And + is simply shift, > then the equals (=) key? Thanks again. I do feel > as though I'm making at > least some progress. > Yes, sorry AltGr is the "right alt key", it's called AltGr on many keyboards and Alt on others. "+" isn't anything -it means "while holding down this key". So, on my gb keyboard if I press the right alt key hold it down press ';' and then press e I get � - e with an acute accent. > James > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Tony Harlequin wrote: > > > --- James Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can't seem to puzzle out how to input unicode > into > > > X apps: specifically, > > > I need to do this in OpenOffice.org. > > > > > But I'd > > > like to just be able to > > > type away at the keyboard in Russian, Greek or > > > Tagalog. > > > > Firstly, Debian has most of the fonts you need, > > apt-cache search font will show you. > > > > Secondly, how you input characters depends on your > > keyboard layout. For example AltGr+ : or ' or # > might > > give acute, cicumflex or grave accents > respectively, > > like ��� - this works on my gb keyboard layout. > > > > For other combinations you need different deadkeys > or > > a different keyboard layout. > > > > The easiest is to use setxkbmap. For example, > doing: > > > > setxkbmap gb > > setxkbmap cz > > setxkbmap fr > > > > will give british, czech and french keyboards > > respectively. > > > > This works very well in all appls that understand > > unicode including oo.org, emacs and uxterm. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? > Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW > Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
