Re: unicode input in X apps: how to?
--- James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net> wrote:
> Russian font. Looking at stdout I see an error
> message something like
> "Can't find file pc/ru_yawerty for symbols include
> Exiting." So, somehow
> this ru_yawerty seems not to be on the system, or
> not in the place
> expected.
Have you tried xruskb? It's Debian package.
Some info here:
http://www.siber.com/sib/russify/x-windows/#xruskb
>I also
> installed a couple of packages that came up when I
> searched under the
> term "yawerty." So I have no idea why this phonetic
> keyboard map seems to
> be missing or is unuseable. Do you (or does anyone
> else)?
>
I've just googled all this.
It seems the ru-yawerty keyboard has not yet been
included by XFree86, so you have to roll your own :)
Here's one:
http://www.fnal.gov/projects/ckm/ckm_cluster/internationalization/ru-yawerty
This should be copied to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols
according to this:
http://www.fnal.gov/projects/ckm/ckm_cluster/internationalization/
Hope that helps. Let me know whether it works!
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