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I'm using US English locale and use an us layout keyboard but sometimes I need to view text in Russian with Firefox and type Russian in X. Right now I ...
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    Adding Russian keyboard layout not working

    I'm using US English locale and use an us layout keyboard but sometimes I need to view text in Russian with Firefox and type Russian in X. Right now I get empty boxes in OO and empty spaces in xterm.

    Code:
    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
            Driver          "keyboard"
            Option          "CoreKeyboard"
            Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
            Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
            Option          "XkbLayout"     "us,ru"
            Option          "XkbOptions"    "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
    EndSection
    I have xfonts-cyrillic installed but I don't know how to use it. For example ee (Estonian) layout is working fine with that system. Maybe I'm just missing some fonts? If so, then which ones? Do I need Russian locale just to display Russian? I'm wondering because for other languages I don't need it.

    Debian Sarge 2.6.16.18, icewm, xfree86

    I've been trying various tutorials from the web but still no luck.
    What am I doing wrong?

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    Problem solved by installing msttcorefonts

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