Bug#899979: keyboard-configuration: the caron dead-key of the czech keyboard on the console does not work as expected

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Samuel Thibault, le mer. 06 juin 2018 15:19:07 +0200, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault, le ven. 01 juin 2018 16:28:23 +0200, a ecrit:
> > Anton Zinoviev, le ven. 01 juin 2018 17:22:06 +0300, a ecrit:
> > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > U+015A would be what you'd expect for a latin1 language (^ + S), and I
> > > > guess due to rule ordering, the existing rule doesn't get overrident by
> > > > the rule you introduced, so we need to explicitly remove the existing
> > > > rule.
> > > 
> > > And what should the future console-setup do with compose+^+S when the 
> > > encoding is UTF-8?  How is this problem solved in X?
> > 
> > Well, in X XK_dead_caron is separate from XK_dead_circumflex.  The issue
> > with Linux is that it only has a few dead keys. Maybe we should just go
> > and define all X11 deadkeys in Linux (there are like 55 of them, that
> > will fit), to be done with the issue.
> 
> FTR in the bug report, I have submitted a patch to the LKML on Sun, 3
> Jun ("kbd: complete dead keys definitions").

FTR, it is currently in v4.19-rc7, so it will extremely likely be in
4.19.

Samuel