> What is the Unicode value of the symbol?  Does it exist in
> Lucida?  More broadly, in what font doesn't it exist? There
> are many to choose from.

the characters exits in the fonts, but there's no way to type them
using a key sequence, hence they don't show up in /lib/keyboard, where
i was looking for them.  immediately after emailing the file i went to
unicode.org and found their appropriate unicode values:

0x042A = Ъ
0x042C = Ь

they most certainly show up in /lib/font/bit/pelm/euro.8.font
which is my console font of choice :)

attached is the revised kbd_bg.c file

andrey