Comment 6 for bug 67051

I don't think that it's a configuration option, but I do not know enough
about it to be sure.

The Tajik keyboard has several letters that are similar to Russian
letters, but that have an added '-' or ',' eg: 'x' and 'ҳ' . Years ago,
when I was running Mandrake, the Tajik keyboard would work in the
following way: The 'o' on my US keyboard would function as a dead key.
Typing the o and then a Russian letter without the - or the , would
produce the Tajik letter with the - or the ,

In Ubuntu this didn't work.

In Feisty, the Tajik keyboard works again, but I now can produce the
Tajik letter by using a combination of RightAlt and the Russian letter
that looks like it. The 'o' doesn't do anything.

To me it seems that the following happened:
1. There was a working keyboard
2. It broke
3. Someone fixed it but used a different system, replacing the o with
RightAlt. He forgot to give the o back its original function.

This is ok, but it looks strange that the o doesn't produce any letter
and that the щ (the letter that is normally produced by the o on the
Russian keyboard) is missing. This also makes it difficult to type some
Russian words in Tajik.

I may be totally wrong. It's maybe just speculation by someone who
doesn't understand the system.

Here is the output of the command you gave me:

xprop -root | grep XKB

_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "intl", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us,tj", "intl,",
"grp:alts_toggle"

Thanks for looking into this,

Erik

Pascal De Vuyst wrote:
> I'm not familiar with Tajik or Russian keyboard layouts but this looks like something that probably can be configured and therefore likely is a support question.
> Did you try to ask your question on any of the support channels like IRC or ubuntuforums.org ?
>
> Can you provide your current xkb model, layout, variant and options settings by running the following command on a terminal:
> $ xprop -root | grep XKB
>
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Tajik keyboard not working correctly
> + Tajik keyboard layout: put 'щ' in place of the letter 'o' for Russian words
>
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-keyboard (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
>