General Programming Concepts: Writing and Debugging Programs

Cyrillic Input Method (CIM)

The Cyrillic Input Method (CIM) is similar to the Single-Byte Input Method, except that it is customized for processing the Cyrillic keyboard. The features of CIM are:

• Supports Cyrillic and Latin states.

  You can toggle between the two states by pressing the Alt key and the Left or Right Shift key simultaneously.

  Note: The Alt-Graphic (Right Alt) key can be used to generate additional characters within each keyboard layer.

• For the Russian and Bulgarian locales, both 101-key and 102-key keyboard drivers are supported.
• Supports the ISO8859-5 code set.

Keymap:

bg_BG.ISO8859-5.imkeymap

mk_MK.ISO8859-5.imkeymap

sr_SP.ISO8859-5.imkeymap

ru_RU.ISO8859-5.imkeymap

be-BY.ISO8859-5.imkeymap

uk-UA.ISO8859-5.imkeymap

Keysyms:

The CIM uses the keysyms in the XK_CYRILLIC, XK_LATIN1, and XK_MISCELLANY groups.

Reserved Keysyms:

The preceding keysyms are unique to the input method of this system.

Modifiers

• Modifiers:
  

  ShiftMask	0x01
  LockMask	0x02
  ControlMask	0x04
  Mod1Mask (Left-Alt)	0x08
  Mod2Mask (Right-Alt)	0x10

• Internal Modifier:

  
  

  Cyrillic Layer

  0x20

Related Information

Chapter 16, National Language Support, Input Method Overview.