[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#536700: kbd: no KDSKBDIACRUC support

[Ian Zimmerman]

Package: kbd
Version: 1.14.1

The loadkeys program in the kbd package ignores the KDSKBDIACRUC ioctl in
current kernels (and so does the console-tools flavor, as far as i can tell).
That means even though I can set both my display and my keyboard into UTF-8
mode and I can display all of the Latin2 characters (for example) if I have
them in my console font, there's no way to enter them on a plain US keyboard
other than with AltGr + keypad, not quite a user-friendly method.

Enclosed find a trivial C program (tested) using this ioctl to load a
compose table with circa 200 entries, and a data file I use with it.

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