[9fans] New kbmap

[9fans] New kbmap

[Sergey Reva]

Hello

I am just finished create kbmap for Ukrainian language, and have two
question:

I think /lib/keyboard include all symbols which Plan 9 can support,
but I can't find some cyrillic symbols, this is [ye]-0x0404/0x0454
[i]-0x0406/0x0456 [yi]-0x0407/0x0457. I see codes for this symbols
in Windows XP and put it to kbmap, when I test my kbmap I see [ye]
[i] (i was surprised because it not listed in /lib/keyboard) but not
[yi] (this like symbol 0x00EF in latin). How fix this.

Why driver name changed from capital cyrillic P to k?



Ukrainian kbmap:
http://rs-rlab.narod.ru/ua.kbmap

P.S.
If you need russian kbmap, I can create it, just say me about this.

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Re: [9fans] New kbmap

[andrey mirtchovski]

> I think /lib/keyboard include all symbols which Plan 9 can support,
> but I can't find some cyrillic symbols, this is [ye]-0x0404/0x0454
> [i]-0x0406/0x0456 [yi]-0x0407/0x0457. I see codes for this symbols
> in Windows XP and put it to kbmap, when I test my kbmap I see [ye]
> [i] (i was surprised because it not listed in /lib/keyboard) but not
> [yi] (this like symbol 0x00EF in latin). How fix this.

the font you're using probably doesn't have all characters
implemented.  for example the standard font used in the default
lib/profiles (/lib/font/bit/pelm/euro.9.font) doesn't have those
characters.  

use the 'unicode' command to verify.  'unicode 0x400-0x500' will print
the cyrillic alphabet.

you can use any of the unicode fonts there, or download
some of the unix ones (10646) i have converted:

	http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/9fonts/

the font i use daily is /lib/font/bit/10646/7x13/7x13.font; here's how
cyrillic looks with it:

	http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/screenshots/cyrillic.jpg

> 
> Why driver name changed from capital cyrillic P to k?

it's a completely different driver.

andrey