Bug 73485

Summary: I18N-Support is very weak
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Mirko Zeibig <mirko-lists>
Component: rdesktopAssignee: Alexander Larsson <alexl>
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Version: 8.0Keywords: FutureFeature
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URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/
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Description Mirko Zeibig 2002-09-05 10:12:58 UTC
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Description of problem:
When invoking the null-provided rdesktop, non US-keyboard are almost unusable. 
1. You have to figure out the correct mapping between country and a
   numeric country-code
2. The german keyboard will not let you enter things mapped with AltGR (e.g.
@\{}[]).

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Invoke rdesktop with the option for an international keyboard.
2. Connect to a Terminal-Host
3. Try to use {@\.


Additional info:

The unified patches at http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/ provide a way out.
I use rdesktop-unified-patch19-9-0 rather happily and had no problems so far.
The Keyboard is working as it should and instead of remembering a number for the
keyboard-translation one may use two-letter countrycodes like 'de' or 'fr'. The
command will show you all available translations if invoked with the help-option.

Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2002-09-05 10:25:51 UTC
I'll take a look at integrating it in the future.


Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2002-11-20 11:02:15 UTC
Duping to bug with better title.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78221 ***