From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 18:10:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A631B37B81E for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:10:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 03:10:09 +0200 Received: from sun34.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.134] helo=sun34) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 13FRH4-00048L-00; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 03:06:46 +0200 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 03:11:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun34 To: Vladimir Kushnir Cc: Ariel Burbaickij , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Active support of Russian language In-Reply-To: Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Vladimir Kushnir wrote: > Hello, > First a couple of questions: > What newsreader/irc are you using? If they run in xterm, did you check > that _it_ runs with an appropriate font? (Sorry for this last, but > sometimes stupid mistakes happen :-) > And a suggestion. Have you tried wmcyrx instead of Xkb or Xrus? The > problem with Xkb is that not all of the applications are "well > behaved". Besides, wmcyrx has the useful feature of supporting > several different Cyrillic encodings (actually, I type with a slightly > patched version in koi8-r/cp1251/alt Russian and in cp866 Ukrainean). hallo, Vladimir xterm can be easily counted to well-behaving applications and it accepts thing called ICUKEN in some circles very well.Same holds surely for all console-applications(e.g. tirc,bitch,tin(with it have not made any experiments,though)Point is I do belong to this pampered young brat that is accustomed to fancy GUI things and i will give up very reluctantly.To make the long story short: For irc I use xchat and for USENET I use Netscape(Neither of them behave well what russification regards) As to values of global variables and methods of l10n used by me in common they ARE exactly as described by Andrey Chernov. ICUKEN also does not suit to my needs very well. I grown up in Lithuania and have never seen such a thing as standard Russian keyboard(I do not make any jokes).I will now try wmcyrx and see of what good is it . Thank you for you preparadness to help .So the whole thing boils down to 3 questions: 1)How to localize xhcat ? 2)How to loclaize Netscpae ? 3)How to make yawerty standard ? In case you should have any additional questions aimed to clear situation for you I will be glad to answer surely > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > > More is desired,though. I need to be able to do following: read and > > WRITE USENET messages in Russian,use irc in Russian and so on. > > What I see so far in briefly is following: As soon as I try to > > switch to Russian(Caps Lock as described) I get diacritic signs > > in some circles weel-konwn under term krakoziabras form the upper > > half of default ascii table not Russian fonts that are expected > > on their places.Xrus does not work either actually it does not > > even show up on the screen let alone produce any expected actions. > > As far as I have seen there is substantial amount of Russian users > > so quick and down to the earth help is requested chiefly from them. > > > > Best wishes, > > Ariel > > > > PS Additional questions that should clear the actual situation for > > potential helpers are surely welcome. > > Regards, > Vladimir > > -- > > ===========================|======================= > Vladimir Kushnir | > vkushnir@Alfacom.net | Powered by FreeBSD > kushnir@ap3.bitp.kiev.ua | > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message