From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-13 i686) Description of problem: The console keymap us-latin1 does not behave as an US-International keyboard (a la Windows) as advertised in the keymap file. Some combinations of dead keys with another key does not work, while they should. For instance, to get a g (c-cedilla), one is expected to type the key ' (dead-acute) immediately followed by the key c in an US-Internationl keymap. The us-latin1 just gives a single quote followed by a c. Another example: ` (dead-grave) followed by a does not give ` (a-grave), but the backquote character ` followed by the a vogal. The problem does not happen with the XFree86 keyboard configured with the us-intl layout. The US-International keymap is too common in Brazil, as it allows the input of all accented letters plus the c-cedilla of the Portuguese language using a standard US keyboard. Many users (like me) are already used to it and prefer it to the national keyboard layout, ABNT2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login at the console (text mode). 2. Setup keyboard map the us-latin1 keymap, if not already done. 3. Type some text using dead-keys combined with vowels and the letter c. For instance, type the keys 'a'e'i'o'u`a`e`i`o`u^a^e^i^o^u~a~o"a"e"i"o"u'c Actual Results: aimsz`a`e`i`o`u^a^e^i^o^u~a~o"a"e"i"o"u'c Expected Results: aimsz`hlrybjnt{cudkov|g Note that only the dead-acute key is producing the expected result. Additional info: Conectiva distributes a good US-International keymap called us-acentos, under the GNU GPL version 2, that is far better than the us-latin1 keymap distributed by RedHat. I suggest that RedHat starts including it also. It can be found inside the SRPM package at ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/snapshot/SRPMS/console-tools-0.3.3-4cl.src.rpm.
I would like to add that, because of this problem, after all RedHat Linux instalation, I have to copy the us-acentos.kmap.gz file taken from the Conectiva Linux distribution and install it at /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ and than setup the console keyboard map using the setup tool. This gets annoying and RedHat could take care of it for us.
After the switch to utf-8, we currently don't support multibyte diacritics on the console.