Bug 82317 – ERROR: unknown keysym 'Meta_acute' when loading KEYMAP="-u de-latin1-nodeadkeys"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Lars Petersen 2005-02-17 00:39:02 UTC]

When I try to load a German keymap with Unicode support, e.g.,

/etc/conf.d/keymaps:
...
KEYMAP="-u de-latin1-nodeadkeys"
...,

I get the following error message:

extensa ~ # /etc/init.d/keymaps start
 * Loading key mappings ...
unknown keysym 'Meta_acute'
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1.map.gz:34: syntax error
syntax error in map file
key bindings not changed
 * Error loading key mappings                                   [ !! ]
 * Setting terminal encoding to UTF-8 ...                       [ ok ]
extensa ~ #

It seems that the Meta_acute symbol appears _only_ in the de-latin1 maps:

extensa ~ # find /usr/share/keymaps/ | xargs zgrep Meta_acute
/usr/share/keymaps/mac/all/mac-de-latin1.map.gz:        alt     keycode  24 = Meta_acute
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1.map.gz:        alt     keycode  13 = Meta_acute
extensa ~ # 

So, maybe the 'Meta_acute' is in error and should be 'Meta_apostrophe' (which appears in a lot of keymaps)? This is just a wild guess, however, so I would be thankful for someone more competent looking into this problem.

Thank you for your time!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add/change line 'KEYMAP="-u de-latin1-nodeadkeys"' in /etc/conf.d/keymaps
2. Make other changes to enable unicode, e.g. 'UNICODE="yes"' in /etc/rc.conf (however, this is not necessary to reproduce the error)
3. (Re)start the /etc/init.d/keymaps service
Actual Results:  
(See above.) 

Expected Results:  
Install the de-latin1-nodeadkeys keymap with unicode support.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-02-17 06:58:34 UTC]

i assume you're running baselayout-1.11.x ... i cant tell for sure though because you didnt paste `emerge info` ...

if that is the case, i dont think you need the '-u' crap in KEYMAPS anymore ... could you try it w/out -u ?

[Comment 2 Lars Petersen 2005-02-17 07:53:18 UTC]

Sorry for my not including `emerge info`, but you got it right anyway -- I am
in fact using baselayout-1.11.9-r1.

And, yes, loading the keymap WITHOUT the '-u' prefix in /etc/conf.d/keymaps
works perfectly! Since I went by the Gentoo UTF8-guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml, in particular code listing 3.4), I
just thought that leaving this out might cause trouble not immediately obvious
to me. But probably it doesn't, as you say.

Thanks to your hint regarding the baselayout, I also found http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32111
mentioned in /usr/doc/baselayout-1.11.9-r1/ChangeLog.gz
This looks pretty much like my problem (which turned out to be located between
keyboard and chair... ;-). So, I think you can close this bug (or regard it as
a suggestion to update the UTF8-guide).

Thanks again!

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-02-17 19:07:07 UTC]

the UTF guide has some bugs open to get it updated, but i'm glad it works now ;)