Bug#364282: xkb-data: Layout "en_US" doesn't work anymore

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:47:05PM +0200, Carlos wrote:
> Package: xkb-data
> Version: 0.8-5
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> With this keyboard layout, pressing AltGR (or right Alt) allowed the user to
> input special characters (for example, AltGr+; = dead acute, AltGr+Shift+1 =
> inverted exclamation mark). Now it doesn't work anymore.
> 
> To reproduce:
> 
>  $ setxkbmap -rules xorg -model pc104 -layout en_US
> 
> and then press "AltGr+; a". A "LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE should be
> generated. Instead, something different happens. In most cases, a
> RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK is generated, as if normal Alt
> was pressed (';'+128).

This file has been removed upstream, the 'us' layout already contain
several intl variants, so I am not sure if another one will be accepted.
Anyway this layout is still available through
  setxkbmap -rules xorg -model pc104 -layout latin -option lv3:ralt_switch

Denis