Bug#514212: console-setup: on UTF-8 console, caps lock is turned into a shift lock
Anton Zinoviev, le Thu 05 Feb 2009 13:04:42 +0200, a écrit :
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:34:09AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >
> > If the reason has been lost in history (the code dates back from at
> > least 2005) then we should probably apply the patch to fix the common
> > case, and let the real bug reappear and get fixed the proper way.
>
> The reason is known - Caps_Lock works only for English letters.
More precisely, as described in the bug report, it works only for the
underlying 8bit charset, so in unicode it's latin1.
Samuel
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