Re: OO and Russian
Verena Schmidtke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> how do I add Russian language support to OO.org writer? I'm running
> version 2.0.3 from backports.org and have installed
> openoffice.org-l10n-ru.
>
> I was told that I have to install TrueType fonts for OO. Since I didn't
> find any fitting Cyrillic ones in Sarge, I installed some free fonts
> (like ROL-K8-Courier, ER Bukinist 1251 etc.) I found on the net with
> spadmin. Unfortunately, the letters rendered with one of these fonts
> are still Latin and not Cyrillic.
>
> So what am I missing?
Did you set your keyboard layout to russian? E.g. using
'setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout ru -variant basic'?
With 'kxkb' or similar programs you won't need to set up such cryptographic
commands.
Poka,
Bernd
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