[gnome-cyr] [Bug 80585] New - impossible to enter cyrillic

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Changed by kirillov math sunysb edu 

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+Bug#: 80585
+Product: gnome-applets
+Version: 1.90.1
+OS: other
+OS Details: 
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: major
+Priority: Normal
+Component: gkb
+AssignedTo: gnome-applets-maint bugzilla gnome org                            
+ReportedBy: kirillov math sunysb edu               
+TargetMilestone: ---
+URL: 
+Summary: impossible to enter cyrillic
+
+I've tried using gkb to switch the kbd to Cyrillic (Russian) and found it
+to be almost impossible. gkb provides 3 Russian modes: Russian xkb, Russian
+xmodmap and Russian Cyrillic (?). I tried all 3 - and in all 3 of them, I
+am still getting English, not Russian: key "w" produces "w", not
+"cyrillic_tse". I finally found a way to type Russian - by reading the file
+/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ru and figuring from it what key acts as
+mod_switch (I am not telling you which). But surely we can't expect all
+users of GNOME 2 to do it this way. 
+
+Also: "Russian xkb" and "Russian xmodmap" kbd files contain 
+"Codepage: iso-8859-1"
+which is clearly nonsense.