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Old 05-30-2005, 05:17 AM   #1
mjjzf
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Solved: Cyrillic letters on Western-based XFCE


I am putting together some webpages where I will need Cyrillics with UTF-8. I am using a very sweet and speedy XFCE-Slack-setup. However, I have no idea how to input these letters - the system and X are coded 8859-1
Earlier on, I used Gnome, and before that, KDE - but these heavily bloated environments are not for me. In this case, however, I miss some functionality... Any pointers?

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Old 05-30-2005, 11:47 AM   #2
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To write cyrillic in UTF-8 in documents, I use KWrite. Although to type in console I use KOI8-R, because it's a lot easier to configure.
For my awful homepage I used only KWrite to write Russian in UTF-8.
 
Old 06-02-2005, 02:50 AM   #3
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A followup: Problem solved

A followup - I received a very useful answer from a fellow from my LUG:

The problem is easily solved through x.org's standard features. X.org will administer the layouts with a hitch. The xorg.conf (in /etc/X11) must be modified along these lines:

Code:
Option "xkbModel"  "pc101"
Option "xkbLayout"  "us,ru,dk"
Option "xkbOptions" "grp: caps_toggle"
That way, American, Russian and Danish keyboards are switched with Caps-Lock. For using Caps-Lock in the usual way, use Shift+Caps-lock.

Also, with XFCE there is an applet called XKB Layout Switcher.
After compiling, either a flag or a text will be shown in the XFCE taskbar.
 
  


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