Re: Cyrillic input in X
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> >
> > Could anybody share his(her) positive (and negative too :)) experience in
> > setting up of cyrillic input in X?
> >
> > In text mode I already have full cyrillic support. In X I can see texts in
> > Russian but no one cyrillic letter input in xterm, in Netscape etc.
>
> First you should add the debian packages that contain cyrillic fonts for
> X (should be easy, maybe you already did it). Then edit your
> /etc/X11/XFConfig, find the section "Files" and make sure that the
> directorie(s) containing cyrillic fonts are in the FontPath. E.g., I
> have
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Section "Files"
> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
>
> EndSection
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If you then restart the X server, you should be able to use the fonts
> from the cyrillic directory in an xterm or netscape (see the file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/fonts.dir), e.g.
>
> $ xterm -fn -cronyx-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-koi8-r
>
> HTH,
> Eric
>
I probably described my problem not clearly. I already installed cyrillic
fonts and they are mentioned in XF86Config file. My problem is I can't
type in Russian. However I choosed Russian keyboard during XF86Setup.
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Vad Ivanov
vsiv@usa.net
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