Hello! I just installed redhat 5.2 and noticed that some swedish characters (edv) were displayed as greek characters. I would suspect the problem is with the kbd package. I managed to hack around it by using using the command setfont /usr/lib/kdb/consolefonts/iso01.f16.gz last in my rc.local. The problem was solved by that, so it seems like the problem was just with the displaying of the characters. /Johan Sultan
I also discovered that the se-latin-1 keytable is screwed up. It missed some important keys like ] and }. I managed to fix that by changing to the fi-latin-1 keytable. /Johan Sultan
*** Bug 259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** On swedish layout not signs ( ] }). Added missing text in map file. Haven't looked for more errors. ------- Additional Comments From dkl 12/02/98 13:12 ------- Could you please be more descriptive on where this problem is occuring and what exactly you did to get rid of it. Thanks. ------- Additional Comments From jacs 12/03/98 05:34 ------- When you want to use this signs on the console or the vi-editor. Decompressed the se-latin1.map.gz file and used the vi-editor to edit the file. Looked on those keys that should hold the text for those signs, my other signs ({ [) worked. More complete information can I send to you when I come home from work because we don't have Linux at work. ------- Additional Comments From jacs 12/03/98 13:57 ------- This is how my se-latin1.map.gz looks like. keycode 10 = nine parenright (bracketright) alt keycode 10 = Meta_nine keycode 11 = zero equal (braceright) alt keycode 11 = Meta_zero Text in parent is added to this file and it helpt me with my problem.*** Bug 905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** When using keyboard layout SE-LATIN1 there are several bugs in console mode. It works in X windows. The problem is that Swedish chars "edv" looks like chars from greece and "]" doesn't work at all. That's the bugs i found so far in SE-LATIN1. THanks Stefan Wold ------- Additional Comments From stefan.wold 01/21/99 03:42 ------- And this have been tested of several of my friends in sweden, they all have the same problem. --Stefan
Red Hat 6.0 uses console-tools rather than kbd (although many of the fonts are identical). Does this problem persist with the Red Hat 6.0 beta console-tools package (see ftp.redhat.com/starbuck and compile from src rpm if you want to test on Red Hat 5.2)
Please reopen this bug if console-tools still has the reported problem.