Bug 225155 – On UTF-8 locale russian capital letters do not appear but small do when CapsLock is switched on in native console

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description eveler 2008-06-06 23:22:51 UTC]

This is my system config:
cat /etc/conf.d/consolefont
CONSOLEFONT="Cyr_a8x16"
CONSOLETRANSLATION="koi8-r_to_uni"

cat /etc/conf.d/keymaps
KEYMAP="-u ru"
windowkeys="YES"
DUMPKEYS_CHARSET="koi8-r"

Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 x86_64)

In native console russian capital letters do not appear but small do when CapsLock is switched on. However when Shift holded all is ok. So there is no matter CapsLock is switched on or off. 
But in xterm or konsole all is goes rigth.

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
...
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
        Option      "XkbVariant" ",winkeys"
        Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection
...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.switch locale (Cttl+Shift)
2.switch CapsLock
3.type a text

Actual Results:  
текст

Expected Results:  
ТЕКСТ

English text appear as expected

[Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-06-24 06:47:00 UTC]

Sorry for letting this bug slip through the cracks.

I assume you were using xorg-server 1.3 when you opened this bug. Can you still reproduce this bug with newer versions of xorg-server and xkeyboard-config? Please don't hesitate to reopen this bug report if you can still reproduce the issue.

Thanks

[Comment 2 Maxim Ganetsky 2009-09-03 15:35:46 UTC]

This bug still can be reproduced on fully updated stable branch.

Note that original bug report states that problems are present only *without* X in *pure* console; in virtual terminals under X (e.g. xterm or konsole) everything works correctly.

[Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-09-03 21:10:39 UTC]

What goes on outside X is not my area of expertise, please get in touch with the kernel team as they are the ones responsible for the text console.

Thanks

[Comment 4 Maxim Ganetsky 2009-09-03 21:47:29 UTC]

I understand. In fact I don't know why this bug was assigned to the X packagers in the first place.

Can you reassign this bug to the kernel team? I can't change its status.

[Comment 5 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-09-04 07:54:46 UTC]

Gladly :)

[Comment 6 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-09-04 07:55:34 UTC]

@Kernel team, this bug was mistriaged as an X bug while this is a console bug.

Cheers :)

[Comment 7 Mike Pagano 2009-09-04 12:12:58 UTC]

Adding base-system herd.  Is this kernel or a sys-apps/kbd issue?

Can you tell us what version of sys-apps/kbd you are running?

[Comment 8 Maxim Ganetsky 2009-09-04 12:48:59 UTC]

I have 1.13-r1 version of sys-apps/kbd and 2.6.30-r5 kernel (gentoo-sources).
I use stable branch.

[Comment 9 George Kadianakis (RETIRED) 2009-09-19 19:27:00 UTC]

Hey there,

I'd like you to - after keeping a backup of your /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru -
change "key <LatQ> { [ Cyrillic_ya, Cyrillic_YA ] };" in there, to "key <AD01> { [ Cyrillic_ya, Cyrillic_YA ] };".

Do check this bug report out: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20093

Thanks :)

[Comment 10 Maxim Ganetsky 2009-09-19 20:13:50 UTC]

I guess I need to reiterate that this bug is *NOT* related to X. In X virtual terminals everything works correctly.

[Comment 11 Mike Pagano 2009-11-22 13:54:23 UTC]

I'm at a loss here and don't really know where to point you to go, here.  Have you had any progress on this on your own?

[Comment 12 Maxim Ganetsky 2009-11-23 00:20:11 UTC]

No. But the bug is still here on stable Gentoo with latest updates.

[Comment 13 Mike Pagano 2010-02-16 16:35:24 UTC]

My suggestion is to talk to others who use the charset you do and see if they can help you troubleshoot this issue.  Sorry I could not be more helpful