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

[LiteStar numnums <litestar@gmail.com>]

Hello (Здраветe и Добро утро) Andrey,
 Thanks for the information; this at least stops me from searching for
reasons why the setup on my wife's laptop is 'broken'. I'll setup
another machine to see if it works from OpenBSD's drawterm (most
probably will); should have a better workstation to server ratio
anyway.
I'll grab the sources from your site, and play around with the input
here too, since it should work on Windblows (although I am rather
ignorant of Windows' workings on a development level; damn you Unix &
VMS for stealing my programing training!). I'll shoot you off another
email after this one about configuring X with Cyrillics.
Наздраве,
 -- Stefan
> 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
> 


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