Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 13085
Icelandic issues
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:14:27 EDT
This time round, the text based installer actually looks good. It has the correct font and it also has the Icelandic keymap. The graphical version however does NOT have the Icelandic keymap and the translated (Icelandic) version of the online help is missing. If Im not mistaken then this is by far the oldest bug in Anaconda because it's been around since the first beta of RH 6.0 all the way to this date. Could we PLEASE not close it this time here untill it has been fixed ?
Could you please attach copies of the incorrect and corrected XF86Config files so we could get this straightened out? Thanks!
Fixed.
With all due respect to the person that closd this, As of beta 4 the keymap still has not been added to the Graphical installer. I repeat: The Icelandic (is) keymap is MISSING from the graphical version of anaconda.
I thought I had fixed this problem - if you could explain what you think is required for the fix I will be happy to implement it. We do not have an Icelandic keyboard so it is really hard to get this right without feedback.
What I think is necessay ? The Icelandic keymap is included in XFree86 and it's name is "is". Add a line in the GUI keymap selection screen for the "Iceland" that selects the "is" keymap. The Keyboard section in XF86Config has: XkbLayout "is" The keymap for the console (Text mode) is already in there (is-latin1) so you dont have to worry about text mode. You can test this easily. Pressing shift-7 should give you a "/" and pressing the / key on the US keyboard should give a "~" character. Please dont hesitate to contact me for more info.
Dang nab it. Bugzilla apparently doesnt like 8 bit chars either :) The / key on the US keyboard with the "is" keymap loaded is not supposed to give a tilda (~). The character is called thorn. Ascii drawing follows: # # ### # # ### # # Hope bugzilla doesnt mess up ascii drawings ;)
I've looked into this further and the problem appears to be that this file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst does not contain a definition for 'is'. As the installer queries the X server for the available keymaps, it is not getting the needed definition. Assigning to the XFree86 package.
This should be fixed in XFree86-4.0.1-0.37, which should be in beta5.
Will you notify the XFree86 people or shall I ? Thanks for resolving this :-)