cyr

NAME

cyr - setup Cyrillic on Linux console

SYNOPSIS

cyr [ options ]... [ keyboard [ keyboard_options ... ]]

DESCRIPTION

cyr is a program for fast and easy setup of Cyrillic on the Linux console.

OPTIONS

-C, --copyright

Display copying conditions and warranty information.

-h, --help

Display help information and exit.

--save

Saves given parametes as default for latter use in ˜/.cyr_defaults.

-v, --verbose

Be more verbose.

-s, --style=fontstyle
-f, --size=fontsize

Use the given fontstyle (i.e. fontface) and fontsize. Type cyr --help to see possible fontstyle-fontsize combinations.

--font=fontfile

Use this fontfile. The options -s and -f get ingnored if this option is given. You will use this argument if you want to use font that is not directly supported by cyr.

-e, --encoding=encoding

Setup the Linux console for this encoding.

--ttys=’console1 console2...’

Setup Cyrillic in these consoles.

keyboard
keyboard_options

Use this keyboard and keyboard options.

CONFIGURATION FILE

cyr reads it defaults from ˜/.cyr_defaults or (if the former file doesn’t exist) from /etc/console-cyrillic.

Lines that contain only spaces or begin with ‘#’ are simply ignored. All other lines should have the form

keyword parameters

Different keywords correspond to different arguments of cyr as follows:

‘ttys terminals...’ is equivalent to ‘--tty=’terminals...’’.

‘style fontstyle’ is equivalent to ‘--style=fontstyle’.

‘size fontsize’ is equivalent to ‘--size=fontsize’.

‘encoding enc’ is equivalent to ‘--encoding=enc’.

‘fontfile fntfile’ is equivalent ot ‘--font=fntfile’.

‘layout kbd’ specifies kbd as default keyboard to use.

‘options opt...’ specifies opt as default keyboard options.

AUTHOR

Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>, <zinoviev@debian.org>