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Wookey
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:10 am    Post subject: keyboard locales horribly broken?
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Can anyone else reproduce
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514245

Which in short says:
a) If you use the gnome keyboard selector to
select Finnish or Swedish (and probably others) with a UTF-8 base
locale of en_GB then it works OK until you reboot with a finnish UTF-8
locale when most of the keys emit garbage. Switching back to the GB
keyboard or the en_GB locale produces working keys again.

b) If you use the Xorg keymap configuration to set more than one
mapping then you can produce essentially the same problem without
rebooting, or changing the base locale, which seems like an easier
problem to get to the bottom of, and may well clarify the above.

This seems to me to be a fundmental and serious problem for the use of
non-UK/US keyboards, but I haven't seen anyone else complaining about
it, and the above bug-report produced no response in last couple of
weeks, so I guess it's not actually affecting that many people?

I've been doing all my testing on a acer aspire Ones (i386) using a fresh
lenny install, which I'd expect amounts to 'bog standard', but perhaps
not.

Clues very welcome, as I'm trying to provide machines for translators,
and it'd be nice if they worked when set to a particular locale.

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Nick Shaforostoff
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:10 pm    Post subject: Re: keyboard locales horribly broken? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Tuesday 17 February 2009 15:50:51 Wookey wrote:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514245

I did a fresh install of mepis 8.0 rc2 (it's almost lenny) -- see mepis.org.
i chose ru_RU.UTF-8 locale during install.

keyboard switching done via /etc/X11/xorg.conf works as expected.
furthermore, i did set up alternative keyboard configuration using xkbcomp
(to get non-standard symbols like «» handy).

I added '/usr/bin/xkbcomp /home/xx/ru_ua_xkb_config $DISPLAY' to autorun.
(by adding .desktop file to ~/.kde4/Autostart)

i can send you ru_ua_xkb_config contents if you're interested.

I also configured KDE4 keyboard switcher into 'indicator only' mode.

If you're setuping machines for translators, then I would really recommend you installing KDE4
as it provides Lokalize the computer-aided translation system.


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