Bug 143014
| Summary: | Cannot input composed characters on Linux console (Unicode mode) | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Simos Xenitellis <simos.bugzilla> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4 | CC: | cefrodrigues, mitr, oliva, pfrields, wtogami, zing |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0412.1/0796.html | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-11-12 06:47:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Simos Xenitellis
2004-12-15 18:40:25 UTC
Added bugzilla report to bugzilla.kernel.org. It's at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3922 X-linked that report to this. It looks Bugzilla does not support UTF-8 :-/ See http://www.advogato.org/person/simosx/diary.html?start=2 to view a similar page of the bug report in UTF-8. You may need to change the browser encoding to UTF-8. Discussion LKML in 2002 about revamping the unicode console support in the Linux kernel. Visit http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2002-09/msg00031.html and then click on "Thread Index" to see the full thread. Article on Linux Gazette by En D Loozzr, titled: "How Linux Console Fonts Work ", at http://linuxgazette.net/issue91/loozzr.html Covers 2.4/2.6, it's good reading. Hold your horses. There has been a discussion on the linux-utf8 mailing about Unicode on the Linux console that significantly changes what is requested in the bug report. You can untangle the new information by starting at http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2005-01/msg00072.html Re-summarising here. Currently, the Linux kernel provides a so-called "emergency console" which is the console interface we are used to when running on runlevel 3. There has been a need to read/write Unicode and the easy solution was to add to this emergency console limited support for Unicode. Adding to the emergency console means that we add to the Linux kernel, something that the kernel developers are not happy about. The proper way to have Unicode support in the Linux Console is to use the framebuffer (so we can represent the full Unicode 4.x standard) and write a suitable terminal emulator. For input support, IIIMF looks suitable. Now, such a terminal emulator exists, but needs development assistance to become more mature. It's UTERM, found at http://members.ispwest.com/hanpaul/uterm.html As soon as work starts on a terminal emulator (based on UTERM or something else), I'll close this bug report and add a link to the new location. *** Bug 75811 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 75430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 116667 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you. The problem is not fixed by the errata. Is there a link to the patch/change that tries to fix this bug? (NEEDINFO means "developer needs info from reporter", not the other way around) Mass update to all FC4 bugs: An update has been released (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4) which rebases to a new upstream kernel (2.6.13.2). As there were ~3500 changes upstream between this and the previous kernel, it's possible your bug has been fixed already. Please retest with this update, and update this bug if necessary. Thanks. The bug has not been fixed with linux kernel 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4. 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 has been released as an update for FC4. Please retest with this update, as a large amount of code has been changed in this release, which may have fixed your problem. Thank you. Nope, no fix yet. This is probably a good candidate for a WONTFIX or at least UPSTREAM, since it's very unlikely that the kernel will ever be able to detect what locale the console is on to decide how to produce non-ASCII characters. I would concur on this. From the discussion on the kernel mailing list, this is an issue to better solve in userspace. indeed. It's a feature request, and those sorts of things really need to go through upstream first rather than live in a vendor tree. |