Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 66302
Lost keybindings, even if requested during install
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:43:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-4 i686) Description of problem: After installation, I lost the additional keybindings I have had under previous version of Linux. If the Alt-e key combination has been pressed, it would display "e". Now it does not, it displays "e". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info: During installation I chose en_GB, en_US and no_NO (I think it is no_NO, Norwegian, not nynorsk) as languages. I expected that to let me have norwegian characters, French characters and so on, as I have had under all previous versions of Red Hat, but this time I lost all characters. I even lost the Euro-key, which is something my colleagues can find on their en_GB (possibly en_US as well).
Your sentence above: '... it would display "e". Now it does not, it displays "e".' both "e"'s are the same, so I don't understand the problem. Most likely what you were trying to show, did not come through in the bug report. I'm not entirely sure I understand the problem. I did add Euro key support to en_GB and en_US locales however, which was also tested and confirmed to work properly by various people. Can you please elaborate on this problem in more detail?
One week ago, I made a Fresh 7.3 install. I have installed thousands of computers over the years, and I did nothing special. After installation, I realised that when I pressed the Alt-e to get "e", Alt-f to get "f" and so on, instead I got "e" and "f". I would expect that the alt-keys would work in such a way that I could replicate some of the special characters in Europe, but no such luck. In addition to doing en_GB and en_US, I chose Norwegian language. What I think might be the problem are the socalled "Dead keys". Maybe they were not enabled properly?
Sorry for making a comment on my comment, but I realise what is going wrong between us: when I type "e" (a character I see a an a with a small ring above), you see "e", but I see my native character. It is vitale for me to have all these european special characters, which I somehow has lost. Alt-f should give me a letter that looks like a and e are glued to each other, and alt-x should be a o with a slash through it (like old fasioned computerised 0). The web interface destroys these special characters.
This is either an installer/configuration bug, or it is a bug in X's keyboard mapping tables. If it is the latter, which I strongly expect it is, it is likely an XFree86 specific bug rather than a Red Hat Linux bug. I've no experience with troubleshooting debugging this sort of i18n stuff, so it is best left up to the expertise of the XFree86 team or someone else familiar with this stuff. Defering until XFree86 4.3.0 in hopes the problem is solved there. Please report the problem to xfree86@XFree86.org and xpert@xfree86.org also.
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