[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#524907: Bug#404503: Wrong characters typed using dead keys

[Michael Schutte]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:13:45AM +0200, Pavel Vávra wrote:
> Just a note: dumpkeys (from patched package kbd) still returns 0xFF as
> composed characters, i.e. it will not be possible to use dumped file
> as source to loadkeys.
> 
> Well now I make a summary how to solve descibed bug in UTF-8 environment:
> 
> 1) Apply Samuel's patch into kbd package
> 2) add line 'charset "iso-8859-<n>"' into original iso 8859-<n> keymap.
> 3) reload boottime.kmap.gz when it is right time to do it

May I dare ask you to try one more (quite massive :-)) patch?  It
applies to kbd 1.15-1 as currently in sid and squeeze and should also
fix the dumpkeys problem you experience, as long as you use
“dumpkeys -c iso-8859-2”.

> ... and I hope squeeze users will use full console keyboard soon.

The Linux console as it is today can only be close to fully functional.
But of course kbd can at least catch up with what is possible :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Michael Schutte <michi at uiae.at>
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