Bug 82609

Summary:	kbd does not translate some keys correctly
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jim Dabell <jim>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Jim Dabell 2005-02-19 14:10:21 UTC

Setup:
baselayout-1.11.9-r1
UNICODE=yes in /etc/rc.conf
KEYMAP="-u uk" in /etc/conf.d/keymaps
SET_WINDOWKEYS="yes" in /etc/conf.d/keymaps

With this setup, /etc/init.d/keymaps tries to load the windowskeys keymap before kbd_mode -u is called, resulting in a warning that the keymap contains unicode characters.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-19 14:12:35 UTC

and if you remove the '-u' from KEYMAP ?

Comment 2 Jim Dabell 2005-02-19 14:16:29 UTC

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml#doc_chap3_sect3 says that the -u should be present.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-19 14:26:29 UTC

i didnt ask you what the docs say, i asked if removing the '-u' fixed your problem

Comment 4 Jim Dabell 2005-02-19 14:57:19 UTC

The warning disappears and some Unicode files I tried catting worked.

However I did notice that U+00BC (VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER) appears to be rendered as U+0152 (LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE).  Kate, Mozilla and Konsole all render the character appropriately.

Also, when I attempt to enter U+00A3 (POUND SIGN,

Comment 5 Jim Dabell 2005-02-19 14:57:19 UTC

The warning disappears and some Unicode files I tried catting worked.

However I did notice that U+00BC (VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER) appears to be rendered as U+0152 (LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE).  Kate, Mozilla and Konsole all render the character appropriately.

Also, when I attempt to enter U+00A3 (POUND SIGN, £) on the command line simply by pressing shift+3, it appears as U+0023 (NUMBER SIGN, #) followed by a new line.

I'm not sure whether these are bugs in baselayout or some other package.

As far as the documentation is concerned, should I file a separate bug for the document telling people to use -u in KEYMAP?  Or is that actually intended to work and removing it is simply a workaround for a bug in baselayout?

Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-19 15:00:30 UTC

the doc peeps already have bugs to update the unicode guide

as for the other things (certain button combinations not showing the correct symbol), that's most likely a bug in kbd ...

what do you have your CONSOLE* variables set to ?

Comment 7 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-07-02 10:43:51 UTC

get back to us