Description of problem: Once the default keyboard is selected (AZERTY for me) the mapping for this keyboard is OK but the icon in the gnome-panel still indicates an English keyboard. For other scripts the "intuitive" mapping is the one of a QWERTY keyboard. Example: hindu-itrans "a" key (from AZERTY) which is "q" key (from QWERTY) returns "q" hindi letter; "," key (from AZERTY) returns "m" hindi letter (as on QWERTY) same problem for hindu-phonetic, tamil-itrans/phonetic, marathi-itrans/phonetic, greek (with some strange phenomena more)... latin-post returns "a" from AZERTY "a" key but "a_" from "q" AZERTY key, "w" from "z" AZERTY key and so on... It is impossible to use scim keyboard without knowing the QWERTY keyboard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): scim-m17n-0.2.1-1.fc6.x86_64 How reproducible: Just switch to an "exotic" scim keyboard Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: intuitive letters from the default keyboard according to the letters which are the "same" in different scripts: for hindi for instance "a" key should return "a" hindi letter (not "q" hindi) double "a" : long "a" hindi letter, "w" key should return "v" hindi not "z" hindi and so on *whatever* the default keyboard is. Additional info:
Hi, If I get you correctly, You said 1) Most of keymaps ( and their key mappings) follows/written with respect to QWERTY keyboard. 2) If you are AZERTY keyboard user then mappings will get changed as those (say hindi) keymaps follows QWERTY right? 3) so we need some middle layer for AZERTY keyboard users to map them first to QWERTY keyboard and then print respective languages character symbol. Or you have any solution in your mind to solve this problem?
Yes, this is exactly what I meant for point 2) point 3) I cannot help you there.... The only thing I know is that under fedora core 4 it used to work correctly ("a" is "a" whatever the script is...) But I cannot remeber if the scim* m17n* packages came from fedora repositories or from a compatible one (livna, dag, freshrpms...) I use an unicode text editor which allow to type several scripts and this problem does not occur. http://www.yudit.org/
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Thanks for updating the bug to F8 - still seems to happen with rawhide too.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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There is some work in progress on ibus that may improve the interaction of xkb and IM.
In recent ibus including f11 in ibus-setup you can now click on the "Advanced" tab and uncheck "Use system keyboard layout". Then ibus will override AZERTY when using ibus-m17n and you can input Hindi inscript, etc in the standard way. So this is a viable workaround for now. In the longer term we would like to make this per m17n map and automatic but we are not quite there yet.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Fixed in Fedora 12