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

[Pavel Vávra]

Hi Michael,
  sorry for my late answer, I has been too busy to test it, but I have to say that I try to use squeeze version with your patch and I still need to reload boottime.kmap.gz to make console work as expected.
  I agree that Linux console works fine, but we need to find why 2nd loading of boottime.kmap.gz is neccessary at the end of boot process.

Regards,
  Pavel

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:28:14 +0200
Michael Schutte <michi at uiae.at> wrote:

> 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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