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Jirka

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From: Czech Rep.

Registered: 2007-03-13

Posts: 21

Keyboard localization (czech, latvian)

Hi,

I need to be able to write in czech and latvian, but even if I have tried every instructions I have found (and sometimes it was really different instructions of each other) I'm still writing english. English is nice language, really, but I have to write docs also in my mother language.

What I want is:

via Alt+Shift switch to one of these keyboards - cs_CZ, en_US, lv_LV.

So my questions is What I have to do, where I have to edit to be able to use czech and latvian keyboard (and english too)?

And would you advice me to use UTF-8 or central-european iso-8859-2?

Thank you

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Stalwart

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From: Latvia, Riga

Registered: 2005-10-18

Posts: 445

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Re: Keyboard localization (czech, latvian)

I use:

    Option "XkbRules"   "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel"   "hpzt11xx"
    Option "XkbLayout"  "lv,ru(winkeys)"
    Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps,eurosign:5"

and ru_RU.UTF-8 locale.

You don't need 3 layouts, 2 is enough. lv layout is us with altgr rebound to diacritics (āīūžč etc.).

P.S. People should bury non-unicode locales. UTF-8 solves almost all i18n problems

UPD: GolemJ from #weechat offered:
Option "XkbLayout"  "cs,lv"

Last edited by Stalwart (2007-03-23 15:20:28)

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