Re: About new character set and keyboard driver for XFree86

Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>  
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> // Mongolian (cyrillic)
>
> partial default alphanumeric_keys 
> xkb_symbols "basic" {
>
>    name[Group1]= "Cyrillic";
>
>    key <TLDE> { [ 0x1002116,    percent   ]       };
>
>    key <AE01> { [ exclam,       1                 ]       };
>    key <AE02> { [ minus,        2                 ]       };
>    key <AE03> { [ quotedbl,     3                 ]       };
>    key <AE04> { [ Cyrillic_ie,  4                 ]       };
>    key <AE05> { [ colon,        5                 ]       };
>    key <AE06> { [ period,       6                 ]       };
>    key <AE07> { [ question,     7                 ]       };
>    key <AE08> { [ comma,        8                 ]       };
>    key <AE09> { [ parenleft,    9                 ]       };
>    key <AE10> { [ parenright,   0                 ]       };
>    key <AE11> { [ Cyrillic_ie,  Cyrillic_IE       ]       };
>    key <AE12> { [ Cyrillic_shcha,Cyrillic_SHCHA]  };
>    
>    key <AD01> { [ Cyrillic_ef,  Cyrillic_EF	]	};
>    key <AD02> { [ Cyrillic_tse, Cyrillic_TSE      ]       };
>    key <AD03> { [ Cyrillic_u,   Cyrillic_U    ]   };
>    key <AD04> { [ Cyrillic_zhe, Cyrillic_ZHE  ]   };
>    key <AD05> { [ Cyrillic_e,   Cyrillic_E    ]   };
>    key <AD06> { [ Cyrillic_en,  Cyrillic_EN   ]   };
>    key <AD07> { [ Cyrillic_ghe, Cyrillic_GHE  ]   };
>    key <AD08> { [ Cyrillic_sha, Cyrillic_SHA  ]   };
>    key <AD09> { [ 0x10004af,    0x10004ae     ]   };
>    key <AD10> { [ Cyrillic_ze,  Cyrillic_ZE   ]   };
>    key <AD11> { [ Cyrillic_ka,  Cyrillic_KA   ]   };
>    key <AD12> { [ Cyrillic_hardsign,Cyrillic_HARDSIGN     ]       };
>
>    key <BKSL> { [ backslash,     slash    ]       };
>
>    key <AC01> { [ Cyrillic_shorti,Cyrillic_SHORTI ]       };
>    key <AC02> { [ Cyrillic_yeru,Cyrillic_YERU     ]       };
>    key <AC03> { [ Cyrillic_be,  Cyrillic_BE   ]   };
>    key <AC04> { [ 0x10004e9,    0x10004e8     ]   };
>    key <AC05> { [ Cyrillic_a,   Cyrillic_A    ]   };
>    key <AC06> { [ Cyrillic_ha,  Cyrillic_HA   ]   };
>    key <AC07> { [ Cyrillic_er,  Cyrillic_ER   ]   };
>    key <AC08> { [ Cyrillic_o,   Cyrillic_O    ]   };
>    key <AC09> { [ Cyrillic_el,  Cyrillic_EL   ]   };
>    key <AC10> { [ Cyrillic_de,  Cyrillic_DE   ]   };
>    key <AC11> { [ Cyrillic_pe,  Cyrillic_PE   ]   };
>
>    key <AB01> { [ Cyrillic_ya,  Cyrillic_YA   ]   };
>    key <AB02> { [ Cyrillic_che, Cyrillic_CHE  ]   };
>    key <AB03> { [ Cyrillic_io,  Cyrillic_IO   ]   };
>    key <AB04> { [ Cyrillic_es,  Cyrillic_ES   ]   };
>    key <AB05> { [ Cyrillic_em,  Cyrillic_EM   ]   };
>    key <AB06> { [ Cyrillic_i,   Cyrillic_I    ]   };
>    key <AB07> { [ Cyrillic_te,  Cyrillic_TE   ]   };
>    key <AB08> { [ Cyrillic_softsign,Cyrillic_SOFTSIGN     ]       };
>    key <AB09> { [ Cyrillic_ve,  Cyrillic_VE   ]   };
>    key <AB10> { [ Cyrillic_yu,  Cyrillic_YU   ]   };
>         
>    key <LSGT> { [ less,         greater           ]       };
>         
>    // Begin modifier mappings 
>
>    modifier_map Shift  { Shift_L };
>    modifier_map Lock   { Caps_Lock, ISO_Lock };
>    modifier_map Control{ Control_L };
>    modifier_map Mod3   { Mode_switch };
> };
>
>
>  
Thank you very much,,,,