Hi
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Asaf wrote:
> I am trying to configure my X server to work with 3 languages: English,
> Hebrew and Arabic.
Yes, this is the right list.
> I found here and there xkb files which map keys to English/Hebrew or
> English/Arabic keyboard, but Idon't know how do I combine the two of
> them, so that I will have support for three languages at the same time.
> I did find a file that supports three languages at once (English, Rusian
> and Latvian), but the way it does so, is to defined all the three
> languages at one file, that means that the table of xkb_symbols contain
> three groups at once.
> I find this inconvenient. I believe that there is a better way to
> combine maps from different files.
> What I need is a simple way to switch from English to Hebrew to Arabic etc.
There should be. Hopefully there will be, one day. But here is something
that can work *now*:
Here is something to try:
sed -e 's/\[Group2\]/\[Group3\]/' -e 's/{ \[ \]/{ \[ \], \[ \]/'
/path/to/symbols/ar >ar3
This should create a file 'ar3' (I tried it only on 'ar' from the CVS,
maybe it won't work with older copies.
e.g:
partial default alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "basic" {
name[Group3]= "Arabic";
...
key <TLDE> { [ ], [ ], [ Arabic_thal, Arabic_shadda ] };
key <AE01> { [ ], [ ], [ 1, exclam ] };
key <AE02> { [ ], [ ], [ 2, at ] };
key <AE03> { [ ], [ ], [ 3, numbersign ] };
key <AE04> { [ ], [ ], [ 4, dollar ] };
key <AE05> { [ ], [ ], [ 5, percent ] };
Put this file in /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ with the rest of the symbols
files
Now set your Xkb options to:
symbols: en_US+il+ar3
e.g:
Option "XkbSymbols" "en_US+il+ar3"
in XF86Config
Maybe setting "option" to "il+ar3" will also work, e.g:
Option "XkbOptions" "il+ar3"
If it'll work, it will probably be cleaner.
Notes:
1. All of this is untested
2. This is a hack, but if anybody has a better alternative that works
*now*, I'd like to hear it.
> I could not find anyway a detailed documentation about the format of the
> symbols configuration files.
A partial Englih version:
http://www.tsu.ru/~pascal/en/xkb/
A more complete version (in Russian):
http://www.tsu.ru/~pascal/other/xkb/
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