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Bug#251550: Keyboard freezes when typing non-ASCII letters (was Re: Bug#251550: Bug#254630: LVM names)



* Denis Barbier [2004-06-22 01:09:05+0200]
[...]
> If eacute is replaced by its Unicode notation U+00E9 in keymap
> file, everything works fine now.  But this keymap cannot be used
> when keyboard is in ASCII mode, The only solution is to have two
> keymaps, one for ASCII mode and the other one for UTF-8 mode.
> 
> This looks pretty crazy, loadkeys should automatically convert from
> numerical/litteral value to Unicode notation (and vice versa)
> depending on current keyboard mode.

Right, this is pretty crazy and also explains the existence of two 
(almost) identical Q keymap of Turkish, one for ASCII (trq.kmap) and the 
other for Unicode (trqu.kmap), a perfect example for the problem.  I saw 
your mail in linux-utf8 ml, hope the issue will be solved in future.

-- 
roktas

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