International keyboard setup (xkb)
I'm trying to make sense of the way X is handling the keyboard, via xkb. I
want to be able to setup something like xkbsel to switch between a latin and
cyrillic keyboard. (Cyrillic docs usually recommend using xruskb, but from
what I understand, it is, as the russians might say, somewhat "otstoiniy".
Based on X11R5 rather than X11R6 or something).
Now the keys all seem to be there in /etc/X11/xkb - there's the cyrillic
mapping in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ru, but the bit I don't get is where the key
gets mapped to the letter's ASCII value. For instance, take the key "q".
/etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 and /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us suggest it's the
physical key 24 which gets is mapped to X key <AD01>. But at what point is
<AD01> mapped to ASCII character 161 (hex 71) ??
When I can understand that, I'll be on my way to enhancing xkbsel to write
in cyrillic.
Drew
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