Peter Jay Salzman wrote on 2003-06-10: > hi all, > > i just converted my system to UTF-8. xterms, mutt, vim all are unicode > capable now. the only thing left for me to conquer is a keymap and a > font. i'm on debian testing. > Then you have XFree 4.3.0, right?
> next, the keymap. i found an excellent keymap along with a png of the > keyboard layout at: > > http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/Hebrew/pango-hebrew.html > > but my english speaking brain really can't wrap around it. aleph should > be where the "a" key is. i've seen hebrew phonetic keymaps in vim, but > i'd like to have a phonetic keymap for everything else as well. does > anybody know of a phonetic hebrew ready made keymap? There one built-in, though I never tried it: $ setxkbmap -layout us,il_phonetic > preferably something that documents the keystrokes. On RH9 it's defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/il_phonetic Read it with any text viewer. > one of the nice things about dov's effort is the cool png that comes > with it that shows key layout. Cool indeed ;-). The `xkbprint` command render an xkb keymap but has a bogus command line. Can anybody give a minimal command line to use it? RH9 includes a GUI interface for XKB, including a preview generated by xkbprint. It could use a rotation by 180 degrees ;-) but if it also exists in debian you could try it. > the other cool thing is being able to toggle between hebrew and english > with the right alt key. that was a really nice touch. :) > My favourite is toggling with CapsLock, showing the mode with the ScrollLock led: $ setxkbmap -option grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll Look near the bottom of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 for other options. Not tied to any specific keymap. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
