Re: Weirdness with Input Method/quail : how to figure out source of it?

[Alex Kost]

Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@gmail.com> writes:

> My setup:
> - two languages: English and Russian;
> - standard QWERTY keyboard, *but* DVORAK layout for both terminal and X;
> - standard Russian layout (ЙЦУКЕН).

> * Problem 0
>
> If layout were QWERTY and one uses 'russian-computer' Input Method then 
> letters on keys and
> typed symbols, both English and Russian, are coincide. For instance, some 
> part of QWERTY
> keyboard:

> Page on EmacsWiki:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WritingRussianWithDvorak
>
> My variant of quail 'dvorak' layout:
> https://raw.github.com/vp1981/scripts/master/emacs.d/misc/quail-dvorak.el

Hello,

I use the same layout combination: English Dvorak and Russian ЙЦУКЕН.
Dvorak layout is set in X and is never switched when i'm in Emacs.
Russian layout is turned on internally in Emacs with `set-input-method'.
As you pointed "russian-computer" is working when global layout is
QWERTY, happily there is "cyrillic-dvorak" for our Dvorak case:
<http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/cyrillic-dvorak.el>.

It is described in the EmacsWiki article you mentioned and this variant
works perfectly for me, i didn't even try the other one, which you used
for your "quail-dvorak.el".

So I have (load "/path/to/cyrillic-dvorak.el") in my init.el; and i
switch layouts with:
  (set-input-method "cyrillic-dvorak")
  (set-input-method nil).

I hope it helps.

As for you Problem 1, i have never met such behaviour.