Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 29395
in german keymap, the euro.inc isn't included and default font doesn't give euro sign and cent.
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:59 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14 i586; en-US; 0.9) Gecko/20010224 In the default install, when choosing a german keymap, the altgr-e should give the euro sign and altgr-c the cent. for this the euro.inc keymap should be included in (at least) the european keymaps by default. also a latin-0 fonts should be used by default (it seems that this isn't the case) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: type altgr-e and altgr-c
Fixing this for myself for the console was easy (loading the euro.inc and latin0-16 as the font --- by the way, it seems that lat0-14 has a bug, too: the "'" doesn't kome up when I press shift-3 [german keyboard]) but how to make this work for X11? I don't even know which component to choose to report it as an X11 bug. Is this really a RedHat problem or is it an XFree problem or a problem with the fonts? dunno.
de-latin1 and de-latin1-nodeadkeys do include euro.inc; use those. The default font is set by anaconda; I agree it should be a latin0 font for European languages. Reassigning... X keymaps and fonts come from XFree86, please file any problems under that component.
Trond, can you give me some direction on this one?
We don't have one of those keyboards - Bero, can you help Brent
OK, some remarks that may help to clarify the situation a bit: 1) the sign that didn't work (see my second post) on shift-3 is the paragraph sign, not the "'" as it shows up here for me (on mozilla). 2) the main probelm is two fold: first of all, despite what Bero says, the de-latin1-nodeadkeys (which I am using) doesn't define the CENT sign correctly, despite it including the euro.map (maybe there is some double definition here?) The character it produces is the copyright sign. The second problem is with the wrong default font -- a latin0 font should be the default at least in europe (Is there any reason at all not to use a latin0 font instead of a latin1?). Of course fixing the second problem is needed before one can see the first at all -- if there's no glyph in the font, a bad or good keymap doesn't make THAT big a difference. After I loaded the right font, the keymap shows the euro sign, but not the CENT (as descibed above), until I finally load the euro.inc map --- now everything works.
Our installer team-lead thinks we should really fix this before next release.
What is the difference between latin0 and latin1 fonts?
Does the problem still exist with the Wolverine beta? These changes may have been fixed in the newer XFree 4 releases.
I'm not getting much feedback here.......
I'm not sure what latin0 is - latin9 is latin1 + euro.
The fonts seem correct - however, anaconda should write SYSFONTACM="iso15" instead of "iso01" which it is currently writing.
This has been fixed, and should already be OK in CVS... I'll move a couple of other languages as well.