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[Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

El día Sunday, April 24, 2016 a las 11:05:26PM +0200, Alexey Balmashnov escribió:

> I see. So you need to be able to input a few extra "accents" and using
> modifier key (switching on the fly how actual key-presses are interpreted
> by a system) looks and feels OK. For Russian you need 33 extra symbols of
> alphabet, overlay-ed over standard keyboard, modifier key just does not
> really fly in this case. I am used to keyboard layout switchers and I
> actually can switch to Cyrillic with a key combo (here is an example: и
> напечатать несколько слов; translation: and type in a few words). Different
> languages, different implementations, different views on what is "basic"
> functionality in terms of user experience and usability ;)

Hi Alexey,

As I said, I use a normal QWERTY or as well QWERTZ keyboard (the latter
on my FreeBSD netbook). With the attached key modifications I can type
fine: Мена зовут Мattиас. 

O this too:

И снег, и ветер,
И звёзд ночной полёт…
Меня мое сердце
В тревожную даль зовёт.

I learnd Russian in the past in school, many years ago in the GDR.
You do not need any change of keyboard layout to type Russian text :-)

	matthias
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! .xmodmap-cyrillic
!
! Adds cyrillic characters to the keyboard mapping,
! while respecting the basic keyboard layout.
! $Id: .xmodmap-cyrillic,v 1.3 2004/09/30 18:32:24 chris Exp $
! Author: Christian Steinruecken
!
! Assumed extra keys: [�  [�  [�
! Currently complete: Russian
! Partially complete: 

! added by guru@xxxxxxxxxxx
keycode 0x40 =  Mode_switch


! Russian (mapping attempts phonetic proximity)
keysym a = a A Cyrillic_a  Cyrillic_A
keysym b = b B Cyrillic_be Cyrillic_BE
keysym c = c C Cyrillic_che Cyrillic_CHE
keysym d = d D Cyrillic_de Cyrillic_DE
keysym e = e E Cyrillic_ie Cyrillic_IE
keysym f = f F Cyrillic_ef Cyrillic_EF
keysym g = g G Cyrillic_ghe Cyrillic_GHE
keysym h = h H Cyrillic_ha Cyrillic_HA
keysym i = i I Cyrillic_i  Cyrillic_I
keysym j = j J Cyrillic_shorti  Cyrillic_SHORTI
keysym k = k K Cyrillic_ka Cyrillic_KA
keysym l = l L Cyrillic_el Cyrillic_EL
keysym m = m M Cyrillic_em Cyrillic_EM
keysym n = n N Cyrillic_en Cyrillic_EN
keysym o = o O Cyrillic_o  Cyrillic_O
keysym p = p P Cyrillic_pe Cyrillic_PE

keysym r = r R Cyrillic_er Cyrillic_ER
keysym s = s S Cyrillic_es Cyrillic_ES
keysym t = t T Cyrillic_te Cyrillic_TE
keysym u = u U Cyrillic_u  Cyrillic_U
keysym v = v V Cyrillic_ve Cyrillic_VE
! keysym w = w W Cyrillic_ve Cyrillic_VE
! keysym v = v V Cyrillic_zhe Cyrillic_ZHE

keysym y = y Y Cyrillic_yeru Cyrillic_YERU
keysym z = z Z Cyrillic_ze Cyrillic_ZE

! These don't really fit as nicely, but they have to be somewhere
keysym q = q Q Cyrillic_ya Cyrillic_YA
keysym w = w W Cyrillic_sha Cyrillic_SHA
keysym x = x X Cyrillic_zhe Cyrillic_ZHE

! These require key mappings for [�, [�, [� and [�
keysym udiaeresis = udiaeresis Udiaeresis Cyrillic_yu Cyrillic_YU
keysym adiaeresis = adiaeresis Adiaeresis Cyrillic_e Cyrillic_E
keysym odiaeresis = odiaeresis Odiaeresis Cyrillic_io Cyrillic_IO
! keysym aring = aring Aring Cyrillic_yu Cyrillic_YU
! keysym ccedilla = ccedilla Ccedilla Cyrillic_TSE Cyrillic_TSE

! And these are the worst...
! Punctuation keys are modified, and German layout is assumed :(
! This section really does require manual editing, if you want to
! use this conveniently with a non-German keymap...
keysym comma  = comma semicolon Cyrillic_softsign Cyrillic_SOFTSIGN
keysym period = period colon Cyrillic_hardsign Cyrillic_HARDSIGN
keysym minus = minus underscore Cyrillic_tse Cyrillic_TSE
keysym numbersign = numbersign apostrophe Cyrillic_shcha Cyrillic_SHCHA

! Note that, on German keyboards, the @-sign disappears when [Q] is
! remapped. So the following line should make it accessible again, by
! putting it on SHIFT-[3], replacing the mainly useless paragraph
! symbol (which still remains accessible with ALTGR-SHIFT-[3]).
keysym 3 = 3 at at paragraph
! Done...

! Matters of taste:
!   Have VE on [V] or [W]?
!      On the net, quite a few people have VE on [W] and ZHE on [V].
!   Have YERU on [� and YA on [#], for German layout?
!   Have SHA and SHCHA next to each other on punctuation keys?
!   On Swedish keyboards, you can have YA on [�.
!      (Rather than on non-existent [�... :)
! 
! Research question:
!   Are there any sensible keys where the missing letters should be
!   mapped by default?  The motivation of this question is to avoid
!   the necessity for (and the amount of) editing required to get
!   this all to work.