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| Title: | Worldwide -- International Product Issues | 
| Notice: | We cover the world | 
| Moderator: | COVERT::COVERT | 
|  | 
| Created: | Mon Mar 17 1986 | 
| Last Modified: | Wed Mar 05 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 569 | 
| Total number of notes: | 4537 | 
     How to use and most importantly _edit_ Cyrillic text in Digital UNIX? My
customer has
     installed all the Russian Worldwide subsets. He is using the Russian
keymap and a Russian font
     -using dxterm but when he presses the Mode_switch (no matter whatever key
combination)
     which is AFAIK the supposed key combination to switch to/from Russian the
mode all the
     applications stop echoing the characters. That is, for example
dxterm/xterm do not show
     anything when one presses, for example, "a". 
     BUT: if one uses the 'xev' program one can see that the right characters
are sensed by the X
     Window System: for example, in an LK401 pressing the "a" generates
'keycode 194 (keysym
     0x6c6, Cyrillic_ef)' BUT note this: 'XLookupString gives 0 characters:
""'. The situation is not
     stuck for good: pressing Mode_switch again restores the situation to
'Latin'. 
     What the customer would like to do eventually is to edit Russian text,
that is, ISO 8859-5 text. 
-- 
Jarkko Hietaniemi Digital/Finland MCS/OSS DTN 879-4738
[email protected] +358-(0)9-434 4738 
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| 569.1 | this should work | SMURF::WENDY |  | Wed Mar 05 1997 11:12 | 5 | 
|  |     You should be able to edit Russian text without a problem. This
    discussion was moved to mail. 
    
    wendy
    
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