Description of problem: Some keysyms are missing when using vnc display + German/French keyboard layout Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-kvm-4.1.0-10.module+el8.1.0+4234+33aa4f57.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps: 1.Boot rhel8.1 vm with vnc and de/fr keyboard layout and try to input keys listed in Actual results. Actual results: Keys missing in German keyboard layout(German no dead keys) keycode 55 (keysym 0xafd, singlelowquotemark) keycode 56 (keysym 0xad0, leftsinglequotemark) keycode 57 (keysym 0xad1, rightsinglequotemark) keycode 61 (keysym 0xaa9, emdash) keycode 51 (keysym 0xad1, rightsinglequotemark) Keys missing in French keyboard layout(French no dead keys): leftsinglequotemark(keycode 55, keysym 0xad0) rightsinglequotemark(keycode 56, keysym 0xad1) Expected results: These keys can be inputted to vm Additional info: For input keys in different languages, the configurations are: 1)qemu boot with -k de or -k fr 2)Client machine(running remote-viewer) configured to de or fr input method 3)8.1 vm configured to de or fr display and input language
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This issue is indeed not reproducible with below packages: qemu-kvm-6.0.0-24.module+el8.5.0+11844+1e3017bd.x86_64 virt-viewer-9.0-10.el8.x86_64 VM used is rhel8.5 VM with 4.18.0-325.el8.x86_64 Both de and fr has been tested and no such issue happen now.