On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 11:03:19AM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > Yes, xmodmap is one of the solutions. > The second is xruskb. You can find it in Debian as a package. > > But this two solutions are "Nasty hacks (tm)" :) > > and what so "nasty" (tm) in xmodmap ? it was quite blessed > solution till what? X11R6, where Xkb extension was introduced?
Well, with Xkb you use keysyms such as Cyrillic_de or Cyrillic_zhe. With xmodmap (as a rule!) you use keysyms such as Ediaresis & Co. And it's not _russian_ characters. It's hack. You give the koi8-r font to the application and it looks for you as a russian letters. But *they do not*. > And due to backward compatibility xmodmap and friends work just > fine with X11R6... > > The Right Thing - to use Xkb & locale. > > Locales are irrelevant to Xkb. I'm using locales with xrus... Well, but - if you use Xkb - the right tuned locale can help some application (E.g. Netscape) handle all that Cyrillic_*. W/o russian locale and with Xkb you cannot enter russian letters in Netscape. > FYI, RH 5(.1) glibc come with russian koi8 locale which is called ru_SU. Well, why ru_RU.koi8r isn't right? *ru*ssian language in *RU*ssia with koi8r charset. But there is not such thing as a "Soviet Union". Or it's "South Ural" - as in Fidonet? :+) > It would be nice to be compatible with RH. Second, xrus comes with > nice icon indicator which changes the bitmap when you're switching languages. > Keyboard LEDs as indicators are just not good for me (and, i suspect, for > lots of > other people) - i don't like to move my eyes from screen to keyboard. ...so write a little application for catching, e.g., Alt_R and changing the icon :) BTW, I do not need keyboard state indicator at all. But some people (they was using xmodmap before) ask me how to put the indicator on Scroll Lock led :) -- Alexey Vyskubov
