Re: unicode input in X apps: how to?
--- James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net> wrote:
> Thanks for responding, Tony. I did manage to find
> out about, and
> experiment with xsetkbmap. It does, in fact, allow
> me to enter text in
> Russian into OOo like you say. I'm delighted with
> that.
Terrific! Glad to be of service!
> However, it
> makes it impossible to type anything into the xterm
> (guess there's no
> Cyrillic font for it to show?).
Yes, OO is very good at managing the fonts itself, for
xterm - note that if you want to use unicode you need
to use a term that understands unicode - uxterm is the
one.
Then you'll need the cyrillic fonts, I don't use
cyrillic myself, but try searching for cyrillic fonts
and install:
apt-get install xfonts-efont-unicode
apt-get install xfonts-efont-unicode-ib
I'm not 100% that that will do the trick, as I say, I
don't use cyrillic myself.
But I was able to
> back out of that by
> cutting and pasting "xsetkbmap us." Problem now is
> how to get a different
> keyboard layout. "xsetkbmap ru" gets the
> traditional Russian layout,
> whereas I am used to the phonetic one. I've
> searched a bit on layouts to
> see if I could discover a name for a phonetic
> Russian keyboard layout, but
> thus far without success: any suggestions on finding
> where their names
> might be listed?
Again I don't use cyrillic so I can only give you a
few pointers. Emacs lists the following possible
names for cyrillic keyboards:
cyrillic-beylorussian
cyrillic-jcuken
cyrillic-jis-russian
cyrillic-macedonian
cyrillic-serbian
cyrillic-translit cyrillic-translit-bulgarian
cyrillic-ukrainian
cyrillic-yawerty
I'm not sure that will help (I know my girlfriend
likes cyrillic-yawerty for her Russian homework :) )
As for X the keyboards, they are all in /etc/X11/xkbd
The ones I have listed are ru, ge_ru and ru_yawerty.
You might find more if you do apt-cache search.
Also, it seems that if you use the Gnome desktop all
this keyboard switching is easier, me I use
WindowMaker.
Hope that helps
By the way, I don't understand
> this key sequence from
> your reply: "AltGr+." Can you explain which
> keyboard keys you're talking
> about? I know alt, of course, but what is "Gr"?
> And + is simply shift,
> then the equals (=) key? Thanks again. I do feel
> as though I'm making at
> least some progress.
>
Yes, sorry AltGr is the "right alt key", it's called
AltGr on many keyboards and Alt on others. "+" isn't
anything -it means "while holding down this key".
So, on my gb keyboard if I press the right alt key
hold it down press ';' and then press e I get é - e
with an acute accent.
> James
>
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Tony Harlequin wrote:
>
> > --- James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net> wrote:
> > > I can't seem to puzzle out how to input unicode
> into
> > > X apps: specifically,
> > > I need to do this in OpenOffice.org.
> >
> > > But I'd
> > > like to just be able to
> > > type away at the keyboard in Russian, Greek or
> > > Tagalog.
> >
> > Firstly, Debian has most of the fonts you need,
> > apt-cache search font will show you.
> >
> > Secondly, how you input characters depends on your
> > keyboard layout. For example AltGr+ : or ' or #
> might
> > give acute, cicumflex or grave accents
> respectively,
> > like éêè - this works on my gb keyboard layout.
> >
> > For other combinations you need different deadkeys
> or
> > a different keyboard layout.
> >
> > The easiest is to use setxkbmap. For example,
> doing:
> >
> > setxkbmap gb
> > setxkbmap cz
> > setxkbmap fr
> >
> > will give british, czech and french keyboards
> > respectively.
> >
> > This works very well in all appls that understand
> > unicode including oo.org, emacs and uxterm.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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