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Re: Russian Phonetic Keyboard, pt 2



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gaskavahkku, juovlamánu 18. b. 2002 19.59, Curtis Vaughan don čállet:
> 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:-)

Børre Gaup, Kiruna, Sweden
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