Re: xkb

[Dmitry V. Zhulanov]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 04:37:06PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> elf@land5.nsu.ru (Dmitry V. Zhulanov) writes:
> 
> >> To be honest, I do not know.  What is the output of the locale
> >> program?
> > # locale
> > LANG=POSIX
> > LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.KOI8-r"
> > ...
> > LC_ALL="ru_RU.KOI8-r"
> 
> It is not an UTF-8 locale. Isn't there something like ru.UTF-8?
If i set ru_RU.utf8 it works in a same way. Also 
# locale -a
C
POSIX
so I guess I have no any russian locales..
and locale package does not install because of broken dependency
glibc-2.3.2.ds1-11

> 
> >> Does it work exactly like the "ru" keymap in XFree?  I tried testing
> >> the "ru" keymaps but it could've been that I missed some things
> >> because it does not make much sense to me. :)
> > alt-F1..F6 doesn't work instead of it OP OQ .. printed in command line
> > also russian letters display as question sign :(
> 
> Now the keymap/hurd file contains:
> 
> xkb_keymap "ru" {
>     xkb_keycodes        { include "xfree86"             };
>     xkb_types           { include "default"             };
>     xkb_compatibility   { include "default"             };
>     xkb_symbols         { include "en_US(pc105)+ru"     };
>     xkb_geometry        { include "pc(pc102)"           };
> };
> 
> Change this into:
> 
> xkb_keymap "ru" {
>     xkb_keycodes        { include "xfree86"             };
>     xkb_types           { include "default+hurd"        };
>     xkb_compatibility   { include "default"             };
>     xkb_symbols         { include "en_US(pc105)+ru+hurd"};
>     xkb_geometry        { include "pc(pc102)"           };
> };
> 
> Although I have not tested this yet (at the moment I cannot test it,
> sorry), but this should work.
Hm anyway OQ OP OR instead alt-f1, alt-f2 ...
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