Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 71105
Keyboard configurator does not support the "US w/ deadkeys" layout
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:03 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020712 Description of problem: On previous Red Hat Linux versions, it was possible during the installation to enable "dead keys" for the US keyboard layout. US keyboard layouts are very common in Brazil, and usually can produce accented characters by typing a "dead-key" (such as single quote) followed by a "accentable" character. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: There is no possibility of choosing this 'US International' keyboard layout. Additional info: It is possible to go to /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the line: Option "XkbLayout" "us" as: Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" The text-mode "kbdconfig" utility is able to load the "us-acentos" keymap, which is used to enable the dead keys in the US keyboard layout. Unfortunately, under X it is not possible to achieve the same effect of kbdconfig. In text mode, if you type a single quote followed by an "x", you get: 'x (which is the expected behaviour) Under X, after changing the keyboard to "us_intl", typing a single quote followed by an "x" gives you nothing on the screen.
I've added a line for U.S. International keyboards which uses us-acentos for the terminal keymap and us_intl for X. QA, please verify this in redhat-config-keyboard with rhpl-0.35.1
Fix confirmed with redhat-config-keyboard-0.9.9-2.