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

[Samuel Thibault]

clone 404503 -1
retitle use unicode compose table ioctl
tags 404503 + patch upstream
thanks

Pavel Vávra, le Mon 20 Apr 2009 20:22:38 +0200, a écrit :
>   I've found that compose table in /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz contains strange symbols 0x255 as result of each compose line, as described in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10143. I try to change my initial console map to my own file, but after rebooting dumpkeys still return 0x255 as composed characters. Does it mean that lenny kernel doesn't contain patch from kernel bug 10143? No, it seems this patch is implemented.

Note that the bugzilla entry you mention is only about the predefined
compose table, not the one you load after booting.

>   I think that loadkeys has to set map and then dumpkeys has to return same (or similar) map back.

Yes, it should be that way.

> Any idea why some composed characters are rewritten?

The problem is that kbd wasn't patched into using KDSKBDIACRUC.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=12359

Samuel