>From Nils-Erik Svangård on Monday, 2003-02-24 at 12:28:52 +0100: > Hi! > > I'm helping a teacher getting his debian installation working. > There is two things I couldnt solve for him, I thought that maybe > someone knows how to fix it: > > * Switching between swedish and russian keyboard in X (the same keyboard > just changing layout)
As Colin said, "setxkbmap ru" should do the job. The list of available keyboards is given in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols. > * When using the russian keyboard, producing russian charactars. An important first step is to have the appropriate locales installed. If I look in my woody setup under /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, I find the following possibilities. ru_RU ISO-8859-5 ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8 ru_RU.KOI8-R KOI8-R These locales would be installed under /usr/share/locale/ru, which should exist. If you have any doubt, simply run dpkg-reconfigure locales and make sure that Russian is selected. > Is this possible? Is it possible to have two diffrent charactersets in > one document? I suspect it should work. I regularly mix Swedish, Norwegian, German, and French character sets, but these all belong to the same category, namely ISO-8859-1. I have defined aliases such as alias ru="setxkbmap ru" alias se="setxkbmap se" to make my life easier. You may also want to look into using the packages kde-i18n-ru kde-i18n-se That support Russian and Swedish unde KDE. These give you a whole menu-structure in Russian or Swedish. If things are not working out for you, try using these. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
