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

Michael Schutte michi at uiae.at
Mon Jul 13 09:51:14 UTC 2009


forcemerge 524907 536700
thanks

Hi Ian,

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:04:44AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for pointing this out.  The issue has already been discussed in
#524907; the next revision of kbd will support Unicode compose tables
via KD?KBDIACRUC.

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