Turkistani xkb layout

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This keyboard layout provides:

• a latin-alphabet keyboard based on en_US, with IPA characters and characters for Turkish/Azeri/Tatar latin alphabets,
• a Cyrillic keyboard based on Russian, with characters needed for many Turkic languages written in Cyrillic (Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashqort, Sakha, Chuvash),
• a Perso-Arabic keyboard that can handle Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz.

If you find anything missing, let me know, and if you'd like to make changes, feel free! But please make your changes available to others, either here or elsewhere.

Installation instructions

1. Download tks and put the file in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols

2. Add the following text to /usr/share/X11/xkb/evdev.xml and/or base.xml in the <layoutList>...</layoutList> section:

 <layout>
     <configItem>
       <name>tks</name>
       <shortDescription>lat</shortDescription>
       <description>Turkistani</description>
       <languageList><iso639Id>eng</iso639Id>
         <iso639Id>tur</iso639Id>
       </languageList>
     </configItem>
     <variantList>
       <variant>
         <configItem>
           <name>arb</name>
           <shortDescription>arb</shortDescription>
           <description>Turkistani (Arabic)</description>
           <languageList><iso639Id>eng</iso639Id>
             <iso639Id>tur</iso639Id>
           </languageList>
         </configItem>
       </variant>
       <variant>
         <configItem>
           <name>cyr</name>
           <shortDescription>cyr</shortDescription>
           <description>Turkistani (Cyrillic)</description>
           <languageList><iso639Id>kaz</iso639Id>
             <iso639Id>kaa</iso639Id>
           </languageList>
         </configItem>
       </variant>
     </variantList>
   </layout>

3. Open any xkb-based keyboard preference dialog or chooser (e.g., gnome's) and choose the keyboard you'd like to install: e.g., Turkistani Cyrillic

4. Make sure you have a key set for 3rd level access (usually Alt-Gr) and a compose key set (usually Menu or Windows).