[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#514908: kbd: Capslock of accented letters don't work

[Frédéric Boiteux]

Package: kbd
Version: 1.14.1-4.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch


When testing the new french dvorak 'bépo' layout (see bug #514906),
I've noticed that uppercase accented characters aren't used in the console
when CapsLock is active, so I get for instance : BéPOè instead of BÉPOÈ.

looking at loadkeys's code, it seems only basic latin letters are allowed to
work with CapsLock (ASCII codes, under 0x7F), and can be extended to iso8859-X codes (codes under 0xFF), see patch. I've tested this patch with this
bépo layout, it works.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages kbd depends on:
ii  console-common                0.7.80     basic infrastructure for text cons
ii  console-setup                 1.28       Set up the font and the keyboard o
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages kbd recommends:
ii  console-data      2:1.07-11              keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
ii  console-setup     1.28                   Set up the font and the keyboard o

kbd suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: kbd.capslock+accentuated_chars.patch
Type: text/x-diff
Size: 465 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-kbd-devel/attachments/20090211/ea8a8874/attachment.patch