[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#377579: kbd: ACM translation files not supported

[Denis Barbier]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:00:57PM +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
> Package: kbd
> Version: 1.12-14
> Severity: normal
> 
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> 
> I have migrated from console-tools to kbd recently. There seems to
> be a compatibility issue.
> 
> When trying to set Thai console font for 8-bit applications using 
>   setfont tis-phaisarn.f16 -m tis620
> command, I got this error:
>   mapscrn: cannot open map file _tis620_
> 
> In mapscrn.c, this line indicates that the
> /usr/share/consoletrans/tis620.acm.gz file from console-data 20060609
> won't be searched for:
>   static char *mapsuffixes[] = { "", ".trans", "_to_uni.trans", 0 };
> 
> By copying tis620.acm.gz to tis620_to_uni.trans.gz, it just works.
> 
> So, I wonder whether kbd should also look for the ".acm" files
> for backward compatibility, or console-data should also provide the 
> ".trans" version of existing ".acm" files.
> 
> Feel free to reassign this bug to console-data if it's the case.

At the moment, I will let mapscrn search for .acm files.
Thanks for your report.

Denis