console-cyrillic is a package that comes to make the Cyrillic setup on the console easier and better.
It contains various Cyrillic fonts. It has Belarussian, two Bulgarian, Macedonian, two Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian keyboard mappings. For toggling between Latin and Cyrillic alphabets you can use CapsLock, RightAlt, RightShift, RightControl, Ctrl+Shift, Ctrl+Alt, Alt+Shift, LeftWinkey, RightWinkey and Menukey. For temporary switching between Latin and Cyrillic you can use RightAlt, LeftWinkey, RightWinkey and Menukey. Many Cyrillic encodings are supported: Apple-Cyrillic, CP855, CP866, CP1251, ISO-8859-5, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, MIK. The utility `cyr' can remember the user preferences, so he/she doesn't have to use many options or edit configuration file. The package uses Debconf and can setup Cyrillic on console at boot time. Other utilities: displayfont -- displays the console font on the screen, dumppsf -- converts console font to readable ASCII file, mkvgafont -- converts raw console font to BDF font, raw2psf -- adds unicode mapping to given raw console font This package is based on the package console-tools-cyrillic by Vitus Vagner (ftp://ftp.ice.ru/pub/fonts/linux/console-tools-cyrillic-0.8.tar.gz). Anton Zinoviev, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>