Bug 66302
| Summary: | Lost keybindings, even if requested during install | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Lene Jensen <ljensen> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-04-20 12:45:36 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
Lene Jensen
2002-06-07 11:07:29 UTC
Your sentence above: '... it would display "e". Now it does not, it displays "e".' both "e"'s are the same, so I don't understand the problem. Most likely what you were trying to show, did not come through in the bug report. I'm not entirely sure I understand the problem. I did add Euro key support to en_GB and en_US locales however, which was also tested and confirmed to work properly by various people. Can you please elaborate on this problem in more detail? One week ago, I made a Fresh 7.3 install. I have installed thousands of computers over the years, and I did nothing special. After installation, I realised that when I pressed the Alt-e to get "e", Alt-f to get "f" and so on, instead I got "e" and "f". I would expect that the alt-keys would work in such a way that I could replicate some of the special characters in Europe, but no such luck. In addition to doing en_GB and en_US, I chose Norwegian language. What I think might be the problem are the socalled "Dead keys". Maybe they were not enabled properly? Sorry for making a comment on my comment, but I realise what is going wrong between us: when I type "e" (a character I see a an a with a small ring above), you see "e", but I see my native character. It is vitale for me to have all these european special characters, which I somehow has lost. Alt-f should give me a letter that looks like a and e are glued to each other, and alt-x should be a o with a slash through it (like old fasioned computerised 0). The web interface destroys these special characters. This is either an installer/configuration bug, or it is a bug in X's keyboard mapping tables. If it is the latter, which I strongly expect it is, it is likely an XFree86 specific bug rather than a Red Hat Linux bug. I've no experience with troubleshooting debugging this sort of i18n stuff, so it is best left up to the expertise of the XFree86 team or someone else familiar with this stuff. Defering until XFree86 4.3.0 in hopes the problem is solved there. Please report the problem to xfree86 and xpert also. Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major
updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. Users
who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the
latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from:
http://fedora.redhat.com/download
If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest
version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org
bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg"
component.
Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new
bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the
centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that
become available for consideration in future updates.
Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE".
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