Re: [9fans] OT: Bulgarian Input over Drawterm?

[andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>]

On 6/2/05, LiteStar numnums <litestar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>  I'm currently learning Bulgarian, and would like to send Cyrillc
> input over the wire to Plan9 via Drawterm. My wife is a native
> speaker, so I have FlexType installed on the only non-Unix/Plan9 box
> in the house, which does not work over Drawterm. Does anyone know of a
> useful way to send Cyrillic input over the wire through Drawterm? (I
> guess I'm pointing this one directly at Mirtchov). Cheers!
>  -- Stefan Edwards

Hi Stefan,

I'm able to type Cyrillic in drawterm and all the drawterm binaries
(and source) available from ucalgary have this ability, however this
is restricted only to X-windows and MacOSX. Drawterm for windows will,
as far as I know, not allow you to input extended ascii or unicode.

It's unfortunate that I have no suitable windows development
environment and am not familiar with windows' input codes and I'm of
very little help with this one.

Others on this list may help answering how difficult it would be to
"port" /sys/src/9/port/devkbmap.c to drawterm, which would give you
the ability to switch between keyboard layouts within drawterm, as it
is done in native Plan 9 (and yes, there is a bulgarian phonetic
layout there). I may look at that tomorrow, but indeed there's no
promise of any actual results :)

I know this doesn't help much, but if you get your hands on an X
terminal I can guide you through configuring it for Cyrillic input,
which drawterm will then accept gladly (it knows about X's keymaps).
Just send me an email.

Cheers (Наздраве): Andrey