Bug#745262: console-setup: Caps lock doesn't take effect on øæå (Danish characters)
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.102
Severity: important
Tags: l10n
-- Bug description
On the Linux console the caps lock key doesn't take effect on the Danish characters æøå. With caps lock on they are simply rendered æøå (lower case), and not ÆØÅ as one would expect. Caps lock works as expected on the Linux console in Wheezy. I've made a fresh install of Jessie on a virtual machine on different hardware and the problem persisted.
During installation I chose Danish keyboard layout. In addition I've tried all available settings for Danish keyboard with 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'. I've also tried installing console-data and then 'loadkeys dk' and 'loadkeys dk-latin1' (the two Danish keymaps available) and the problem persists.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=da_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.102
ii debconf 1.5.52
ii keyboard-configuration 1.102
ii xkb-data 2.10.1-1
console-setup recommends no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.18-4
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian12
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.52
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-51
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-8
Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii kbd 1.15.5-1
ii keyboard-configuration 1.102
console-setup-linux suggests no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
pn console-common <none>
pn console-data <none>
pn console-tools <none>
ii kbd 1.15.5-1
-- debconf information:
* keyboard-configuration/variant: Danish
* console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
console-setup/guess_font:
* keyboard-configuration/variantcode:
* console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
* keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
* console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
* keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
* keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
* keyboard-configuration/other:
console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
console-setup/framebuffer_only:
* keyboard-configuration/layout: Danish
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
console-setup/use_system_font:
* keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: cn
* console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
* keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: dk
console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
* keyboard-configuration/optionscode:
* keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
* keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
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