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Re: Installation in russian



On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:01:23PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > I tried what's happen apt-install console-cyrillic at 1st stage.
> > There is no error, and default /etc/console-cyrillic is:
> > # Debconf: YES
> > # Bootsetup: NO
> > style ter-uni-framebuf
> > size 16
> > encoding utf-8
> > layout by
> > options caps_toggle
> > ttys /dev/tty[1-6]

> For a running system, I use the following:

> # Debconf: YES
> # Bootsetup: YES
> style uni
> size 16
> encoding koi8-r
> layout ru
> options menu_toggle
> ttys /dev/tty[1-9]

<snip>

> "layout" is keyboard layout. For Russian language it definitly should be
> "ru".

> "options" set the keyboard switch key. "Caps Lock" (the default) seems to be
> a bad choise, because this key is better user to lock caps :)
> I prefer to use "Menu" key, but it is not present on all keyboards. Maybe
> default should be "Ctrl+Shift", because it is the default in micro$oft
> world, and many users expect same switch in Linux.

Why is it necessary for this program to override the keyboard settings?
Is there something wrong with the existing kernel maps for ru/by/uk, as
configured by kbd-chooser?

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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