(EE) Keyboardlayout "Russian" (00000419) is unknown

[Jon TURNEY]

Sergey Talchuk wrote:
> Ups, German influence...
> I meant 'my xterm hangs'
> I've tried 'setxkbmap de' and it works fine.
> After 'setxkbmap ru' I can type 123456890 only. If any other character
> - xterm hangs angain

It doesn't hang for me, it just doesn't display any output...


I guess I was being a bit optimistic.  It seems you also need to:

- start your xterm in UTF-8 mode as 'xterm +lc -u8', as discussed [1]

- configure your bash shell not to escape 8-bit characters, using the first 3 
lines from [2]

- start your xterm with a suitable font 'xterm +lc -u8 -fn 
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'

At least, now I can mash on keys and random cyrillic letters come up :-)

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-12/msg00079.html
[2] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-bash-extended-chars

> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>> Sergey Talchuk wrote:
>>> Hi Jon,
>>>
>>> Unfortunately not and if I try to type xterm stacks. So I have to restart.
>> stacks => sticks?
>>
>> Does it stick whatever the keyboard mapping is? (in which case you probably
>> have this problem [1]), or only when you try 'setxkbmap ru' ?
>>
>> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-i-cant-type-anything
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Sergey
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Sergey Talchuk wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> could you please help me to resolve the following problem:
>>>>>
>>>>> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000419" (00000419)
>>>>> (EE) Keyboardlayout "Russian" (00000419) is unknown
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using:
>>>>> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin
>>>>> Keyboard model: Dell SK8115
>>>>>
>>>>> Also getting an error:
>>>>>
>>>>> xkbcomp -w 3 -xkm -m ru /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 localhost:0.0
>>>>> Error:          Can't find file "en_US" for symbols include
>>>>>                 Exiting
>>>>>                 Abandoning symbols file "ru"
>>>>> Error:          success in unknown
>>>>>                 Couldn't write keyboard description to localhost:0.0
>>>> Does 'setxkbmap ru' give you a working keyboard?


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