[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#600006: dumpkeys output for UTF-8 compose keys is garbish to loadkeys

[Thibaut Paumard]

Package: kbd
Version: 1.15.2-1
Severity: important

Hi,

I first experienced the bug as a failure of install-keymap, which died with
"loadkeys: ... unicode keysym out of range: ... ".

Actually, dumpkeys and loadkeys (from kbd) can't talk to each other in a UTF-8
environment. For instance, I am interested in using the mac-macbook-fr keymap.
Laodkeys can load it directly, it can also load when symlinked as
/etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz. However, it cannot load the file created by
dumpkeys, which contains compose lines like:

    compose '`'  'A' to U+ffffffc0

whereas the original input files (as well as bootime.kmap.gz as produced by the
console-tools version of dumpkeys) contain lines like

    compose '`'  'A' to À

The same utilities from the console-tools package work fine for me. loadkeys
from kbd can read the boottime.kmap.gz produced by dumpkeys from console-tools.

Best regards, Thibaut.



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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages kbd depends on:
ii  console-common                0.7.85     basic infrastructure for text cons
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages kbd recommends:
ii  console-data                  2:1.10-5   keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall

kbd suggests no packages.