Bug 293777

Summary:	sys-apps/kbd-1.15.1: loadkeys: (null):824: unicode keysym out of range: U+ffff when keymap="cf"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jonathan Thibault <cuvier>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289265
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Description Jonathan Thibault 2009-11-19 22:24:54 UTC

The /etc/init.d/keymaps on utf-8 systems calls:

dumpkeys -c <dumpkeys_charset> | loadkeys --unicode

However, the output of dumpkeys is out of loadkeys range for compose statements on my system where keymaps="cf".  For example I get:

compose 'i' 'j' to U+ffffffff

which would be on a system with keymap="us" or "fr":

compose 'i' 'j' to U+00ff

Obviously, loadkeys will reject anything above U+f000 so it fails.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enable unicode in rc.conf system with sys-apps/kbd-1.15.1
2. set keymap to "cf" in /etc/conf.d/keymaps
3. set dumpkeys_charset to iso-8851-1 in /etc/conf.d/keymaps
4. restart /etc/init.d/keymaps
Actual Results:  
* Loading key mappings [cf]...                                            [ ok ]
* Setting keyboard mode [UTF-8]...
loadkeys: (null):824: unicode keysym out of range: U+ffff                 [ ok ]


Expected Results:  
* Loading key mappings [cf]...                                            [ ok ]
* Setting keyboard mode [UTF-8]...                                        [ ok ]

Comment 1 Jonathan Thibault 2009-11-20 16:11:55 UTC

It seems like disabling the:

compose as usual for "iso-8859-1"

line in the cf.map keymap solves the out of range dumpkeys output.  However I do not know enough about keymaps to know if that breaks anything else.

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2022-06-03 01:19:44 UTC

Let us know if this is still an issue.

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2022-06-03 01:20:43 UTC

I suspect this is fixed with https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/commit/89a2d76772ae889068316c8a47df4ee13bac09f1.