Re: About new character set and keyboard driver for XFree86

Kaixo!

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:28:56AM +1000, Batbileg wrote:

> Actually, I am talking about Cyrillic fonts which differ from Russian 
> and others a bit... Yes, there is a big problem with implementation of 
> Mongolian writings...Thanks

There isn't any hard problem at all: cyrillic is very easy to handle, it is
written left ot right, one glyph per character, no combinations,... and
all the needed characters for Mongolian are defined in unicode.

All you need is a font (you can simply use those you have in Windows
if you like them) and a keyboard layout.

And here attached is a keyboard layout, copy it to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/mng
and enable it with somthing like:

setxkbmap "us,mng" -option "grp:rctrl_toggle" 

(it defines a two-layout system, US layout (us) and Mongolian (mng)
(you need at least one latin layout, or you'll be in troubble);
the option is to use the right control key to toggle between
latin and cyrillic; other options are possible)

if it's ok, you can make it the default by editing XF86Config-4 file

        Option "XkbLayout"  "us,mng"
        Option "XkbOptions" "grp:rctrl_toggle"  

in the keyboard section.

The attached layout is a EF-TSE-U-ZHE-E-EN one
 


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