Bug#56275: marked as done (boot floppies lack a way to set default locale)
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From: Ernst Kloppenburg <ernst.kloppenburg@gmx.de>
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Subject: Suggestion of a solution for some problems with using Umlauts in debian
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Hello,
nearly a year ago I made a suggestion to enable the use of umlauts in
debian by default without breaking other things. I made this
suggestion in the form of three bugs against libreadlineg2 (#33168),
xterm (#33169), and emacsen-common (#33170), because changes in these
packages would have to be coordinated. See the original bug report,
which is included below.
In the meantime, nothing has happened. There was neither a positive
nor a negative reply. 33169 and 33170 are still open, 33168 recently
has been closed because /etc/inputrc was moved from libreadlineg2 to
base-files (which of course changes nothing :-).
Now, as /etc/inputrc has moved to base-files, I had the idea to
resubmit the bug report in the hope, that people would discuss and
evaluate it.
Best regards,
E. Kloppenburg
--------- original report -------------------------
I live in Germany and we use 'Umlaute' on our keyboards (accented
characters like ä).
Unfortunately it is by default not possible to directly type in
umlauts in bash.
To enable this, you have to make a change in your /etc/inputrc (as
suggested in a commentary in that file):
set convert-meta off
This makes it possible to type in umlauts in bash, but unfortunatly
breaks typing in Umlauts to an 'xemacs -nw' or 'emacs -nw' (which
worked before the change).
The reason is, that now in xemacs Umlauts and Meta-<key> can no longer
be distinguished, because the shell sends then as 8-bit characters to
the application (emacs).
But this problem can be solved, and the drawbacks with
convert-meta off mentioned in /etc/inputrc are no longer present (I
hope that I have not missed any important sideeffects).
In addition to using 'set convert-meta off' you have to put the
following in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
XTerm*EightBitInput: false
This makes the xterm send Meta-<key> as 'ESC <key>' to bash (or tcsh),
but Umlauts as 8bit. Bash sends these on to 'xemacs -nw' unchanged.
In xemacs you have to use
(set-input-mode nil (nth 1 (current-input-mode)) 0)
to make emacs not interpret bit8 as Meta.
This 'bug report' is sent to the three involved packages (xbase,
xemacs, libreadlineg2). I hope my suggestion is good and makes it
possible to enable umlauts in bash by default, which would be very
attractive for non-US debian users.
Best regards,
E. Kloppenburg
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Ernst Kloppenburg
Stuttgart, Germany
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Subject: bugs closed as of boot-floppies 2.3.1
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: 13 Apr 2001 19:35:44 -0400
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Thank you very much for your bug report. We believe the issue you
reported is solved as of boot-floppies 2.3.1. That is the woody
version of boot-floppies, which is available in the archive, or, some
SPARC and i386, at
<URL:http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/>.
If you feel your bug is still outstanding, please let us know or
reopen your bug -- see <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/> for instructions
how to do that.
We are not longer working on Potato boot-floppies, except for critical
issues. If you feel that your bug hasn't been fixed as of
boot-floppies 2.2.22 (the latest Potato version), then you we need to
reopen your bug and put the 'potato' tag on it. Please be sparing --
the more we are distracted with Potato issues, the less effort we are
able to put into Woody boot-floppies.
Again, thanks for your report. Bug reports are a significant
contribution to Debian. We apologize that it probably took so long to
fix the issue you reported.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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