dave <daf@a64.comcast.net> wrote:
> pakrat@localhost.private.neotoma.org wrote:
>> On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:32:19 -0600 in <fpOdnexO9c--WlnYnZ2dnUVZ_tijnZ2d@comcast.com> dave <daf@a64.comcast.net> wrote:
>>> I've installed xruskb from the 4.0 package collection and got it
>>> to display Russian characters on the screen. But when I type another
>>> character after I type the russian phi (more or less "o|o"), the
>>> right "o" gets overwritten by the next character. This happens for
>>> other characters too. And often an additional character appears
>>> when I switch back to English. Also, I have no chart showing the
>>> mapping of the Russian characters to the U.S. keyboard, although I
>>> can work that out by experiment.
>>
>> I've had erratic results with non-latin alphabets until I went
>> UTF-8. Even then there are too many font sets that are incomplete.
>> I found xkeycaps to be handy the last time I had a need for
>> non-latin character sets.
>
> It appears that the Russian fonts I loaded and which are used by vim
> have larger drawing boxes than the English fonts I normally use.

Xkeycaps looks great! I still haven't quite figured out how to use
it - Xruskb is still running in the background at the moment.