Bug#981592: keyboard-configuration: Compose key can not create Greek symbols with altgr-intl layout

[Karl Schmidt <karl@lrak.net>]

Package: keyboard-configuration
Version: 1.200
Severity: important

Could be that the compose file at  /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose should include the coding for the normal engineering greek symbols via 
the compose-key?
(This is supposed to be the source of the 'compose' key codings (The compose key is labeled <Multi_key> to help confuse people))

This at one time we could get these symbols with g or G  -- <compose_key> <g> <p> would get us π (PI).

There are all sorts of rare charactors in the file - but the Greek letters - like π (PI) - are not assigned a compose key sequence ..
instead by a <dead_greek> key.

If I run xmodmap -pke |grep -i dead_

I see there isn't a greek dead-key assigned.

This rather normal set up should allow one to type Greek symbols 'out of the box'.

The file at /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose belongs to libx11-data - but I don't see that it is open?



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.5.71
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.07-3+b4

keyboard-configuration recommends no packages.

keyboard-configuration suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
pn  console-setup-linux | console-setup-freebsd | hurd  <none>
ii  debconf                                             1.5.71
ii  xkb-data                                            2.26-2

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.28-10
ii  lsb-base  10.2019051400

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.56+nmu1
ii  kbd                  2.0.4-4

Versions of packages console-setup-linux suggests:
pn  console-setup  <none>

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration is related to:
pn  console-common        <none>
pn  console-data          <none>
pn  console-tools         <none>
pn  gnome-control-center  <none>
ii  kbd                   2.0.4-4
ii  systemd               241-7~deb10u5

-- debconf information:
* keyboard-configuration/optionscode: compose:caps
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
* keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
* keyboard-configuration/other:
* keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
* console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
  console-setup/framebuffer_only:
* console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
* keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us
* keyboard-configuration/layout:
* keyboard-configuration/modelcode: microsoft4000
* keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
* keyboard-configuration/model: Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000
* keyboard-configuration/variant: English (US) - English (intl., with AltGr dead keys)
* keyboard-configuration/variantcode: altgr-intl
* keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us(altgr-intl)
  console-setup/guess_font:
* keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
  console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
* console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
  console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
* keyboard-configuration/compose: Caps Lock