Description of problem: There is no usable romanian keymap for the linux console. There is a ro_win one that uses ISO-8859-2, although for romanian UTF8 is needed and set by default. I've created a keymap for the most common used keymap by romanians, that is the variant where diacritics are entered with the help of AltGr. You can find it attached. It would be nice if it would be included in the kbd package in Fedora as well as in RHEL. The name ro is not used, there is only a ro_win variant now. Additional info: I'm the coordinator for Fedora translations.
Created attachment 162824 [details] Romanian keymap
Hi, thanks for reporting and keymap. It's fixed in kbd-1.12-25.fc8 and I've opened two new bugs (#294461, #294471) for tracking this issue in RHEL.
Created attachment 231061 [details] differences from what I submitted to kbd-1.12.27 There seems to be a difference between what I submitted and what is now in kbd-1.12-27 There seems to be a difference between what I submitted and what is now in kbd-1.12-27 Hello, There seems to be a difference between what I submitted and what is now in kbd-1.12-27.
Created attachment 231241 [details] keymap with altgr as modifier, variant with cedillas This variant should be set as default due to the fact that romanian keyboards are very rare and the correct version of ş and ţ characters with commas instead of cedillas below are not present in any console fonts right now.
Created attachment 231251 [details] keymap with altgr as modifier, variant with commas
Created attachment 231261 [details] keymap for romanian keyboards, variant with cedillas
Created attachment 231271 [details] keymap for romanian keyboards, variant with commas
I've attached 4 keymaps that should be included in Fedora and RHEL. Note that two of these keymaps are what is required in bug 337271 so you can close that. Thank you and sorry for the big mess around this. If these 4 keymaps don't satisfy all the people I don't know what will :)
Created attachment 233321 [details] keymap with altgr as modifier, variant with commas Updated
Created attachment 233331 [details] keymap for romanian keyboards, variant with commas Updated
I'm currently working on a font for iso-8859-16/lat-10 (Romanian is in this one). If you know such a thing already exists, please say. This would make the comma variants usable. For now, with the currentfont the sedilla versions are working properly, and they should remain default for now.
If I understand correctly, we have a pretty good fix in kbd-1.12-27.fc8? Moving to F9Target for the full fix.
No, 1.12-27 is out with a deffective keymap. See my third comment to this bug. Please update this as soon as possible, there was no working version before, there is no working version now. The only thing that 1.12-27 fixed is that anaconda won't crash in text mode installation due to missing ro.map file.
Created attachment 247291 [details] font with iso-8859-16 characters Hi, Here is a font that includes the iso-8859-16 characters, among them are the șț and ȘȚ characters, that is s and t with comma undernieth. Please include this in the future kbd packages. The font is licensed GPLv2 or newer, as author Radovan Garabik ( garabik.savba.sk ) stated to me. The font is available here also: http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/fonty-rg/fonts/ The default font for romanian should stay LatArCyrHeb-16.psfu.gz Here is a table with the keymaps that should be added for romanian language: ro.map.gz (default) "231241: keymap with altgr as modifier, variant with cedillas" ro_std.map.gz "231261: keymap for romanian keyboards, variant with cedillas" ro_comma.map.gz "233321: keymap with altgr as modifier, variant with commas" ro_comma_std_map.gz "233331: keymap for romanian keyboards, variant with commas" Please remove ro_win.map.gz from the distribution, it is useless. Note that we can't switch to comma because there are a huge number of packages that display romanian messages with s and t with cedilla, and there is no s and t with cedilla in iso8859-16. With the 4 keymaps and the iso16 font added to kbd we (romanian team) will be able to switch easily to commas when all the packages that now use cedilla in translations are corrected. Thanks
Hello, I was contacted by Alexandru in private about this issue, and I already soleved this in Debian before the release of Debian Etch. The bug report dealing with this bug in Debian is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390633 I think it would be a shame to duplicate[*] the effort instead of taking directly the layouts I made based on the Romanian standard with a few non-intrusive additions to make them work on an Apple laptop keyboard: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390633#17 About the fonts (which, imho, should be a different bug report), I found that console-terminus to be complete in Debian. [*] at least not from now on
Oh, the font I was talking about, console-terminus is present in this binary package: http://packages.debian.org/sid/console-terminus The source package of the binary above is this one: http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/xfonts-terminus I won't get into details about debian packaging, but just say the source package can be obtained by unpacking the .orig.tar.gz and then applying the gzipped .diff over the unpacked orig.tar.gz.
Well, it's a little too late, the effort is already duplicated. Thanks for the help though. The keymaps from the bug report on debian don't work on Fedora. The comma because ISO-8859-16 doesn't exist and the other one because of a unaccepted syntax I guess, around characters defined with +Ux0000, I defined them without the leading +. As I see, we both went with the standards defined by the romanian academy, so we can go on with the keymaps attached here. So Comment #14 is the one to be checked by the kbd team.
The font that Eddy Petrișor suggested would be a better choice if possible, it has the s and t with comma undernieth as well as s and t with sedilla, and of course all the other necessary diacritics for the romanian language.
> The keymaps from the bug report on debian don't work on Fedora. The comma > because ISO-8859-16 doesn't exist and the other one because of a unaccepted > syntax I guess, around characters defined with +Ux0000, I defined them without > the leading +. Please note that the layout I proposed also has a small modification that allows it to be used on Apple laptops. I know this might be a small percentage of the users, but is a feature which has no ill effects for the other users. About the +-es, they can be removed easily with a simple sed: sed -i 's#+##g' <file> I don't know what you mean by 'iso-8859-16 doesn't exist', when that encoding exists[1] and is the only 8 bit encoding that can display correct s/t comma characters. Also, glibc knows about this encoding (and I think that is not a debian-only patch), and if it doesn't, that is a bug :-D. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-16
Hi guys, sorry for my inactivity, I was ill for last two weeks:( Alexandru, kbd-1.12-25.fc8 included your new ro.map. I've changed this map in kbd-1.12-26.fc8 (and later) to produce comma codes and changed LatArCyrHeb-16.psfu.gz font unicode map to display both comma and cedilla codes as cedilla characters (because only cedilla characters are included). (I think this is better, because as soon, as you have font able to display comma characters, you will see right glyph. Meantime you see wrong glyph, but you insert right unicode.) But unfortunately I did a mistake, so it didn't work - here's fixed version: http://people.redhat.com/vcrhonek/kbd-1.12-28.fc8.src.rpm I found another problem - Euro character isn't present in LatArCyrHeb-16.psfu.gz. But things moved as I can see, so today or tomorrow I'll work on new version according to latest comments here...
Created attachment 255111 [details] another font with iso-8859-16 characters Hi, Please find attached a font taken from http://packages.debian.org/sid/console-terminus that contains both the s and with sedilla undernieth as well as s and t with comma undernieth. This font is packaged by Debian, I'm not sure about the license they use, but this font would be perfect for all romanian text mode problems since it includes both characters used. If you do decide that this font can be included, then please drop the wrong cedilla versions of the keymaps and include only the correct comma ones: default: ro.map.gz ( 233321: keymap with altgr as modifier, variant with commas ) optional: ro_std.map.gz ( 233331: keymap for romanian keyboards, variant with commas ) This would be the perfect solution for the Romanian language.
Hi, please test kbd-1.12-28.fc9, thanks!
Hi, It looks beautiful, I'm glad we finally got rid of the cedillas. Now all that is needed is that: - anaconda should be set up to use the "ro" keymap, and the "Lat2-Terminus16" font for text mode installation when romanian is choose or passed in kernel arguments - in system-config-language, file locale-list ro_RO.UTF-8 utf8 LatArCyrHeb-16 Romanian should be replaced with ro_RO.UTF-8 utf8 Lat2-Terminus16 Romanian - the files in kbd-1.12-28.fc9 and the 2 changes above should be pushed into RHEL as well Can you do all that or do I have to open some other tickets ? Thank you very much for the help so far.
Please open new bugs (or reopen old ones) against anaconda and s-c-l in Fedora. Then clone them to RHEL too. Kbd part is already done, I've opened another two bugs to solve this in RHEL (#294461, #294471).