Bug 76081

Summary:	Pressing AltGr generates garbage
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Christian Rose <menthos>
Component:	redhat-config-keyboard	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	twaugh
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Description Christian Rose 2002-10-16 17:30:22 UTC

In 8.0, whenever I press AltGr on my (Swedish) keyboard (in order to compose
some other character such as @ by subsequently pressing another key), I seem to
get random garbage (such as 0, ", and unprintable characters), in addition to
the composed character I wanted.

Pressing *only* AltGr also generates the same garbage. This happens both in
console mode and in X. I can reproduce this on at least three machines.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2002-10-16 18:40:10 UTC

What does 'locale' say?

Comment 2 Christian Rose 2002-10-16 22:18:32 UTC

Output of "locale":

LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2002-10-17 09:41:21 UTC

I don't see that here.  Please give me a detailed 'steps to reproduce'.  Thanks.

Comment 4 Christian Rose 2002-10-17 11:14:25 UTC

1) Install 8.0 system from scratch
2) Pick Swedish keyboard at the installation time
3) Use defaults in other settings

That should be it. On such a system, when I press AltGr only on the terminal, I
get 0, and in the GDM login box and other X applications I get ". When I press
AltGr in addition to a second dead key, I get the 0 or " garbage in addition to
the dead key character.

The contents of my /etc/sysconfig/i18n:
LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:de_DE.UTF-8:de_DE:de:sv_SE.UTF-8:sv_SE:sv"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2002-10-17 12:13:31 UTC

I still can't reproduce it, although I don't have a Swedish keyboard.  I tried
those steps (with a UK keyboard), and dead keys work fine.  For example, AltGr-[
a produces an a with an umlaut.

Since you see this in applications other than bash, it can't be a bash bug. 
Reassigning to redhat-config-keyboard.

Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2002-10-17 12:14:05 UTC

bfox: Can you reproduce this problem?

Comment 7 Gilles CHAUVIN 2002-10-21 12:18:30 UTC

This bug is a duplicate of:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71136
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74759

I got the same problem using RedHat Linux 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 updated to the latest
kernel (2.4.18-17.7.x) using up2date. The keyboard layout used here is
"fr-latin1". Same problem too with RedHat 8.0.

Pressing the right Alt key (AltGr) prints "0" on the console. Under X AltGr
generates '"'.

Comment 8 Gilles CHAUVIN 2002-10-21 12:23:58 UTC

Oh I forgot, as nicolas(dot)mailhot(at)one2team(dot)com say at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74759 , this problem only
occurs when "NumLock" is on when working with the console. If NumLock is off, no
garbage characters are printed on the screen (with console).

When working with X, the '"' are still displayed whenever NumLock is on or not.

Comment 9 Tim Waugh 2002-10-21 12:27:32 UTC

Marking as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71136 ***