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

[Michael Schutte]

Hi Thibaut!

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 08:38:00PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> 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

Thanks for your report (and the very nice bug number you picked there).
This problem only occurs when “loadkeys -u” comes across a “compose as
usual” line; it fails to convert the internal default compose table to
Unicode diacritics.  The fix shouldn’t be too difficult.

Cheers,
-- 
Michael Schutte <michi at debian.org>
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