[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#546712: kbd: "default (ASCII) mode" is misleading

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: kbd
Version: 1.15-4
Severity: normal

On a console in XLATE mode, kbd_mode prints

The keyboard is in the default (ASCII) mode

This is misleading for several reasons:

- this isn't the default mode since kernel about 2.6.24
- this doesn't only handle ASCII, but also 8bit charsets.

I'd suggest rewriting into something like:

The keyboard is in xlate (8bit charset) mode

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kbd depends on:
ii  console-common                0.7.83     basic infrastructure for text cons
ii  console-setup                 1.44       console font and keymap setup prog
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages kbd recommends:
ii  console-data                  2:1.07-11  keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
ii  console-setup                 1.44       console font and keymap setup prog

kbd suggests no packages.

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