[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#404503: Wrong characters typed using dead keys

[Michael Schutte]

Ahoy Pavel,

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:26:03PM +0100, Pavel Vávra wrote:
> no, I have to say that your patch doesn't work as expected. I've tried
> both console tools with attached patch and kbd with patch from
> bugzila.kernel.org and no one returns correct keys. It has been tested
> with actual lenny kernel.
> Making a simple test
> echo "ěščřž-ěščřž" > file.txt
> it returns attached results.
> First characters ěščřž has been typed pressing one key (2,3,4,5 and
> 6), second hes been typed using dead caron then corresponding key.
> There is small difference between kbd package and console-tools
> package, see attacched files. Typing ť or ď failed with both packages.
> Console-tools returns "e" instead "ě" ... it seems to be my typing
> error but I am almost sure (98%) it has been pressed correctly.

I’m sorry if I came across as not caring by not responding to this
report; I’d really like to get this sorted out.  Are you sure that
Samuel’s patch on kbd doesn’t do the right thing?  As far as I can tell,
it works perfectly well and gives the same result for the accented
characters from the number row and for the “composing style” of input.

Samuel, thank you for your patch.  I’ll modify it so it makes use of the
built-in charset tables instead of iconv (after
<http://bugs.debian.org/524057> is sorted out).

Cheers,
-- 
Michael Schutte <michi at uiae.at>
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