Re: Russian Keymap

["David Snopek" <xevol at newtonave dot net>]

Alexander Gottwald said:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, David Snopek wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to get gtypist working under cygwin so I can learn to type
>> better in Russian.  I have a US keyboard that should be maped to Russian
>> the same way MS Windows does (not sure if this is the only way).  I can
>> get xterm to show cyrillic characters properly using -fn.  But nothing I
>> try can get the keymap right.  Doing "setxkbmap ru" will cause xterm to
>> show nothing on keypress and gtypist will show '^' characters.
>
> what does xev report on keypress?

KeyPress event, serial 17, synthetic NO, window 0xc00001,
    root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 6207984, (442,250), root:(512,367),
    state 0x10, keycode 41 (keysym 0x6c1, Cyrillic_a), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:  ""

KeyRelease event, serial 22, synthetic NO, window 0xc00001,
    root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 6208109, (442,250), root:(512,367),
    state 0x10, keycode 41 (keysym 0x6c1, Cyrillic_a), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:  ""

So it knows when I press "а" that its the cyrillic "a" but the
XLookupString returns "" as the represention?

Thank you.
  -- David Snopek

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