Bug#301259: [PATCH] Could this be the same issue with #276548?

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

> This bug seems to be the #276548 issue, if so the patch attached could
> be a workaround.  I think temporarily switching to ascii mode should not

Well, Eugen said (and I tend to believe him) this patch would break
all languages using UTF-8.

So, the fix has to be a little less invasive.

>  	case "$KEYMAP" in
> -		trq|trf|hebrew|lt|lv-latin4|ua)
> -			kbd_mode_temp="ascii" ;;


Indeed, adding "fr-latin9" to the above list fixes the problem (easy
to test....see the IRC log I posted in the bug log). What
we have to do now is identify all keymaps which experience the
problem.