Bug#251550: Keyboard freezes when typing non-ASCII letters
reassign 251550 console-tools,kbd
thanks
(not sure if it's better assigning the bug to the two packages...or
clone it and assign one copy each)
Quoting Denis Barbier (barbier@linuxfr.org):
> This is a solution. IMO a better one is to patch loadkeys as explained
> in my previous post. Here is a first try, I patched kbd 1.12 instead
> of console-tools because I do not know dpatch. Keymap files must
> declare a charset so that conversion between Unicode, literal and
> decimal notations can be performed.
Hmm, Alastair, it's really worth having a look at this, then. This
"keyboard freeze" is really a problem for the Installer.
>
> > What about kbd? You mentioned me in another mail this supposedly more
> > recent system for handling keyboard layouts....
>
> Not exactly, Turkish keymaps are better in console-data than in kbd,
> but others are better in kbd. As I said months ago, I do not see the
> point in maintaining console-tools when it is dead upstream, and am
> quite upset to see that fr-latin0 was chosen as default for French
> when it is obsolete and has been removed from kbd.
Hmmm, I made this proposal in debian-*-french lists...and there was
kind of general agreement. But maybe lot of people didn't have all the
needed information.
What is your recommendation for french keyboards? We still have time
for changing the default (or removing one....I'm still wondering
whether keeping two very similar keyboard maps is a good idea)
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