[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#514908: kbd: Capslock of accented letters don't work

[Michael Schutte]

Frédéric,

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:52:34PM +0100, Frédéric Boiteux wrote:
> When testing the new french dvorak 'bépo' layout (see bug #514906),
> I've noticed that uppercase accented characters aren't used in the console
> when CapsLock is active, so I get for instance : BéPOè instead of BÉPOÈ.
> 
> looking at loadkeys's code, it seems only basic latin letters are allowed to
> work with CapsLock (ASCII codes, under 0x7F), and can be extended to
> iso8859-X codes (codes under 0xFF), see patch. I've tested this patch
> with this bépo layout, it works.

I’ve applied a patch to the same effect as yours, see
<http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-kbd/kbd.git;a=commitdiff;h=784406f>.

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