Bug#389970: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#389970: console-setup: Can't use Danish special characters

[Thue Janus Kristensen]

On 9/28/06, Anton Zinoviev <anton at lml.bas.bg> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:05:41PM +0200, Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
[...]
> > I tried various combinations of settings for console-setup
> > (unicode/non-unicode), but couldn't get it to work.
>
> I suppose you are talking about the following characters:
>
> <U00E5>     /xc3/xa5     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
> <U00E6>     /xc3/xa6     LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
> <U00F8>     /xc3/xb8     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE

Sounds right

> I've just tested the danish keyboard with your configuration and it
> seams can produce these symbols.  For a-ring I used the key after "p",
> for ae I used the key after "l" and for o-slash I used the key after
> the key for ae.
>
> Are you sure that the settings of console-setup are active?  If not,
> then use the command setupcon.
>
> Are you sure you have correct locale?  If you use ISO-8859-1, then the
> LANG environment variable should have value "da_DK".

This was actually not the case, $LANG was empty... (where is this set
up, apart from just doing "export LANG=da_DK"?)

> Are you sure also that your command interpreter accepts non-ASCII
> symbols.  Can you enter these characters in X in terminal emulator.
> If not, then try to make a file ~/.inputrc with the following
> contents:
>
> set meta-flag on
> set convert-meta off
> set output-meta on
>
> Anton Zinoviev
>

adding the .inputrc worked, thanks!

There seem to be a unicode bug in the shell where when I type one of
the chars, I can type 2 backspace and eventually delete the
"thuehome:~$" part of the shell, but that is probably not a
console-setup bug?

Making this work seems rather complicated to me, not being familiar
with the whole console architecture. Is there some package which I
have failed to install which would have set it all up automatically
for me?

Thanks for the help!

Regards, Thue

ps: feel free to close the bug if you feel it is appropriate.