Bug 97013 - REQ: Obsolete european 7-bit non-latin keymaps
Summary: REQ: Obsolete european 7-bit non-latin keymaps
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kbd
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-06-08 19:49 UTC by Mikko Paananen
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:54 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 1.08-7
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2003-07-25 16:50:30 UTC
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Description Mikko Paananen 2003-06-08 19:49:55 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030601
Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Description of problem:
Installation and System settings->keyboard offer various options for keymaps
even on same language, least finnish, swedish, german, norwegian and danish have
latin1 and non-latin options. These non-latin 7-bit encodings are obsolete,
using version of ASCII where several symbols (ie: @$~{|}\) are replaced with
accented letters needed to write these languages. (aka. national ISO-646 7-bit
codes.)

There are no consolefonts for these encodings neither they are compatible with
anything so using these is pointless and only creates confusion among (novice)
users.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select Finnish keymap on installation program
2. Alternative: System settings->keyboard select Finnish


Actual Results:  Linux console prints { for key �, | for � and } �.


Expected Results:  "Finnish" keymap should use latin9 (ISO-8859) encoding.


Additional info:

Workaround is to choose "Finnish (Latin1)".
Suggested fix: move fi.map -> fi-old.map, fi-latin9.map -> fi.map.
Provide compatibility for fi-latin9 -> fi.map

Repeat for other north- and west european languages.

Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2003-07-25 16:50:30 UTC
changed made for fi and those with obvious latin9 equivalents in the i386 directory.


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