Bug 463125

Summary: German keyboard layout wrong
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml>
Component: kbdAssignee: Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 2008-09-22 01:16:53 UTC
The german keyboard layout seems to be broken. The umlauts and possibly other keys result in special characters that are not used in the regular german layout such as:

Hittint "ö" results in "Ô"
Hittint "ü" results in "Á"
Hittint "ä" results in "Ä"

[dennis@nexus ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard 
KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="de-latin1-nodeadkeys"

Comment 1 Fabian Affolter 2008-10-08 13:13:38 UTC
With kbd-1.12-31.fc9.i386 it works fine for me. 

ö = ö
ä = ä
ü = ü

Comment 2 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 2008-10-08 20:45:24 UTC
Hm, I've got the same version installed. What would be the proper way to debug this? I'm not sure which tools to use to find out which keyboard layout/font I'm actually running or how to change them.

Comment 3 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 2008-10-09 14:25:46 UTC
I tried the following both on my rawhide machine with the problem and an old FC7 laptopt:

loadkeys /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/defkeymap.map.gz

Result: I get a regular "en" layout on both machines (i.e. shift+Ä gives me a double quote " which is correct).

Then:
loadkeys /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz

Result: On the FC7 laptop I get the correct umlaut mapping but on my rawhide machine I get the broken mapping mentioned in the initial bug report.

Comment 4 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 2008-11-19 21:58:00 UTC
I've tested this again after a few weeks of updates and the keyboard layout works correctly now.